On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:44 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:58 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Anne Wilson wrote: > >> > >>>On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > >>> > >>> > >>>There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something, probably > >>>automount, is grabbing the device. Make sure you have closed any file > >>>manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop, use it to > >>>umount the device. > >> > >>Erm, not on my machine. I have to use umount from a CLI. Using > >>the desktop icon results in the disc being ejected. > > > > ---- > > which would probably work because a program such as K3b would call for > > it to be inserted and not mount such a disk but rather perform whatever > > is needed to erase and start writing. > > Now who's speaking out of ignorance? :-) ---- clearly I am since I haven't used FC-2 in quite a while and have never purchased an 'R/W' disc and have never used one. I did qualify my comment as 'probably' because I don't have first hand knowledge so yes, I am speaking out of ignorance. ;-) ---- > > No, because when K3b calls for the door to close, the automounter > finds it and mounts it. And if it's blank, using this technique > causes the "CD Maker" to start up, preventing K3b from working right. > > The only thing that works on my machine is > > (1) Insert the disc > (2) If it was blank, wait for the CD Maker to start, then kill it > (3) If it was not blank, wait for it to mount, start a CLI, and umount it > (4) Start or continue with K3b. ---- but to be accurate...this is on FC-2 and things have changed a bit since then. ---- > > I never have approved of auto mouting like this. IMO, MicroSoft products > handle removable media better than UNIX like OSs, especially floppies. ---- I'm not sure what you mean - Windows will automount a CD, Linux will automount a CD. I know that EZ-CD Creator will prevent automounting a CD that is inserted if EZ-CD is foreground application - but I do recall CD's automounting when inserted even when K3b is foreground application. So perhaps, this still might not be a suitable method. As for floppies...I dunno - Windows is pretty non-responsive to other stuff when formatting/writing to a floppy, whereas Linux just buffers it...but that does mean that to flush the buffers, it is necessary to unmount it first. It would seem that both approaches have their benefits/drawbacks. Craig
