[CentOS] CD burning issues & questions

[fred smith]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:23:55AM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:50:55 Lanny Marcus wrote:
> >> > On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote:
> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave.
> >> >> >> I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran
> <snip>
> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and
> >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible.  Then a couple of days ago I
> >> >> > desperately needed a CD, and I'd run out of blanks.  I put a CD-RW
> >> >> > into the drive on a box where I hadn't used k3b before.  K3b opened up
> >> >> > with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle of miracles, it asked if I knew
> >> >> > that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b could do it on the fly.
> >> >> > I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. It asked if I
> >> >> > wanted it to blank the disc and use it.  I got a clean, verified burn,
> >> >> > and used the CD-RW to do an install!
> 
> >From reading that, I think that you did not unmount the media, before
> that. Am I correct? If so, that does not work for me. I have tried
> this, logged in as a regular user and also logged in as root. Same
> results, so it is not a permissions problem.
> 
> > Before you can file a bug report that is likely to help get anything sorted,
> > you have to be able to define the problem.  At the moment I don't think you
> > have done so.
> 
> Correct. I believe Fred Smith is correct that the drive needs to be
> unmounted. I am going to try to do that and see what happens.
> 
> > I agree with Kay that this implies that the drive is mounted.  You MUST make
> > sure that it isn't before using k3b.
> 
> OK. I will try to unmount /dev/hdd, before I launch K3b for the next attempt(s).

I firmly remember that at times in the past K3B would automaticlaly
unmount the CD when it was about to erase or otherwise write to it, but
on my current system (centos 5) it does not. I've not really investigated
to find out why (though I certainly should).


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