On Jan 18, 2008 5:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"man wodim" says this:
"because certain versions of Linux (kernel) limit
the set of SCSI commands allowed for non-root users. Even if usage without
root identity is possible in many cases, some device drivers still may fail,
show unexplainable problems and generally the problems become harder to debug.
The risk for buffer-underruns is also increased"
could that be a hint?
could it be that the drive just went belly up?
I can't remember where and when I read that some drives break
when used in certain scenarios. I may be wrong.
~af
Another mystery: what is wodim? That one is easy: wodim is a fork of
cdrecord. So I was actually using wodim.
OK, what does "wodim --devices" say?
Segmentation fault
"man wodim" says this:
"because certain versions of Linux (kernel) limit
the set of SCSI commands allowed for non-root users. Even if usage without
root identity is possible in many cases, some device drivers still may fail,
show unexplainable problems and generally the problems become harder to debug.
The risk for buffer-underruns is also increased"
could that be a hint?
could it be that the drive just went belly up?
I can't remember where and when I read that some drives break
when used in certain scenarios. I may be wrong.
~af
