Re: Unable to burn DVDs

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> Nick Sanders wrote:
>>
>>> For me when running growisofs  with user permissions on 2.6.10 
>>> (ide-cd) it works perfectly 1st time but 2nd time fails with the 
>>> error below. It works fine when run as root.
>>>
>>> :-( unable to PREVENT MEDIA REMOVAL: Operation not permitted
>>>
>>> As an aside audio cd burning with cdrecord works as long as the 
>>> '-text' option isn't used, if it is the process hangs.
>>
>>
>>
>> I reported a similar thing with cdrecord, writing a first session 
>> successfully using the -multi flag, but not being able to append to it 
>> or read the size with the "-msinfo" flag. I was totally blown off and 
>> told I didn't have permissions on the device, even though I was able 
>> to write to it.
>>
>> I believe the true answer is that the SCSI command filter is blocking 
>> a command needed to perform the operation, probably a command to lock 
>> the door of the drive. In my case I have permissions to write the CD, 
>> just not to read the info needed to write additional sessions.
>>
> 
> Hello,
> Bill and Nick, could you try the attached patch that I sent to Jens 
> Axboe yesterday? (You can see the mail with an explanation on
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110599420505734&w=2 )

Thank you, I will try to get it in tomorrow if I can replicate the issue 
with a USB CD burner, otherwise I will have to wait until Fri or Sat to 
try it on an IDE atached unit. Or I can try to get it going in my 
laptop, that has an FC2 install right now, so it should (eventually) 
build a kernel ;-)

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