fc5t3+ k3b used CD-RW's fail on erase/rewrite

[David Timms]

With relation to:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179213

I see the same issue. The CD RW is automounted since it already has data 
on it: you want to erase and reuse the disk. The workaround for me is to 
manually umount via a terminal: this is not a user thing to be doing.
There used to be a thing called ~"user mount tools" that you could 
unmount stuff with, I doesn't seem to be installed / no longer packaged 
?. Also there is an options tool for removable media where you could 
disable automount - but this is not what you want either.

So the question is where should this issue be addressed ?

- gnome's automount - there is an icon on the desktop, right clicking in 
this incarnation (was OK FC4 I think - unmount) provides an eject 
option; but this ejects the disc, at which point you can't erase it. 
Re-inserting causes the automount. Enough to drive sane people over the 
wall ;-)

A solution would be for the automounted CD's context menu to provide an 
Unmount command. simple/obvious (if the desktop is visible), does not 
require users to do command line hacks.

- k3b - is it up to k3b to forcefully unmount the CD-RW so that erase / 
write process can begin (or at least list exactly what is holding it 
from unmounting the disk so that erase can start). It probably needs 
better interpretation of error codes received to state to user how to 
fix the problem, rather than failing (a bad impression). And a button to 
instruct k3b to "really" unmount it (no matter what), when the error occurs.

- is it up2 the cdrecord tools to unmount it ?

[no workarounds - only permanent user usable solutions]

DaveT.