On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@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
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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).