CD Writing Hostile-Takeover

[fred smith]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:23:27AM -0500, Adam Voigt wrote:
> No, I am closing the window.

You might try runnnig (from a command window, logged in as root):

	lsof | less

then searching for the device your CDROM is attached to, to see if
any other process has it open.

> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:03, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:28, Adam Voigt wrote:
> > 
> > >>I finally got my FireWire CD-RW working (thanks to those who helped),
> > >>but now for some reason XCD-Roast won't burn CD's. I triple checked all
> > >>the settings, and they are right, and it gets up to the status screen
> > >>where it does the "Writing CD" with progress dialog, etc. However,
> > >>nothing actually happens. Manually running "cdrecord" from the command
> > >>line with all the appropriate options, does nothing as well (it says
> > >>it's starting the actual burn, but just sits there).
> > >>
> > >>However, if using Nautilus, I right click on an "iso" image and go to
> > >>burn, it works fine, but this only allows me to burn pre-prepared iso
> > >>images, not CD to CD, etc.
> > >>
> > >>My hypothesis is that because Nautilus pops up the "burn:///" dialog,
> > >>when I insert a blank CD, that it must be commandeering the CD-RW drive,
> > >>preventing any other programs from writing to it.
> > >>
> > >>Does this sound like whats happening? If yes, how can I stop it? If no,
> > >>got any ideas?
> > >>    
> > >>
> > Are you leaving the nautilus window open?
> > 
> > I always close the nautilus window, before attempting to write to the 
> > blank CD
> > and have not had any problems.
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> 
> Adam Voigt
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> 
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