On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: <snip> >> 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 into >> that last night. Went to M$ Windows and I was able to erase the 2 >> CD-RW media, without any problem. Then, I tried to burn the files >> (which are M$ Windows files) to the CD-RW media. No go and I wasted >> about 20-30 minutes, while it was in a loop or stalled on M$ Windows. >> Then, I went back to CentOS and I was able to burn the files, without >> any problems. :-) Not sure what is causing the issues. Nothing >> grave, such as borked your box recently. > > My experience has been that SOMETIMES K3B will attempt to erase a RW volume > and fail because the volume is currently mounted. I think that K3B should > automagically unmount it, but I've seen it not do so. So, if erasing it > fails, manually unmount it then try again. Fred: Thank you. The next time it happens, I will try to unmount. Lann