cdrecord cannot blank CD RW

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Whenever I try to blank a CD RW, I get the following:
> 
> $ cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom blank=fast
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
> 1995-2005 Jörg Schilling
> NOTE: This version contains the OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools and thus may
>       have bugs related to DVD issues that are not present in the original
>       cdrtools. Please send bug reports or support requests to
>       http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla The original cdrtools author should
>       not be bothered with problems in this version.
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for
> 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero.
> $
> 
> Any ideas?

Does it work if you run it as root?

Paul.