On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > As to the "in use" part, I'll make a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess). > > With a normal desktop, when you insert a CD/DVD that has something > recognizable on it, an "automount" occurs that gives you access to the > thing from your desktop. I know notthing about the k3*, so I don't know > if the following is possible. > > Is it possible that it is mounted as another user? If it is mounted at > all, does k3* allow you to erase, write, etc? I would think that it > would need to be un-mounted for that to occur. > Actually, I did think of that. I tried running the cdrecord erase command with sudo (as root) and it made no difference - still couldn't "lock" the device. Should I unmount the disk and then try the erase command? That seems kind of odd, but I'll try it tonight anyway.... Thanks. mhr