On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > Whenever I try to blank a CD RW, I get the following: > > $ cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom blank=fast > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) > 1995-2005 Jörg Schilling > NOTE: This version contains the OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools and thus may > have bugs related to DVD issues that are not present in the original > cdrtools. Please send bug reports or support requests to > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla The original cdrtools author should > not be bothered with problems in this version. > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for > 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero. > $ > > Any ideas? Does it work if you run it as root? Paul.