On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:16, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:11 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I haven't used RW disks for ages, but since I wanted to experiment a bit,
> it seemed sensible. I put a CD-RW into k3b (FC4) and it erased it
> happily, but I can't get it to burn to the disk at all. I'm just getting
> messages like
>
> Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Device or resource busy. Cannot open '/dev/hdd'.
> Cannot open SCSI driver.
>
> I did the same batch of files onto a CD-R without any problem at all.
>
> Is this a known problem?
Sounds like something has the device mounted already. Check the mount
table: df -vh
and make sure the device is not mounted. Then try k3b again.
That was the first thing I checked. And, as I said, k3b wrote to a CD-R
immediately afterwards.
Anne