> I have an Alpha 164SX with Teac CD-W58E. The burner works nicely, but I
> have a bit of a problem: if I (for whatever reason, mostly by mistake)
> abort the burning process (by hitting CTRL-C), the writer remains locked.
>
> The LED light keeps on blinking, just as it does while buring, but I
> cannot eject the media, nor can I reset the SCSI bus ('cdrecord -reset'
> fails with a core dump - as it always does). Even more, 'cdrecord
> -scanbus' reports CD-W58E to be a CD-ROM instead of CD-RW.
>
> This state remains until reboot, which is bad as I cannot reboot my
> machine too often (it's resources are somewhat shared).
>
> Can I change anything about my Linux kernel configuration, or anything
> else (apart from switching to SCSI, which I cannot) to change that
> behaviour?
By my own experience, the behavior after aborting a burning job will depend
on
the CDRWs. For example, Plextor PX-W1210TA, AOPEN CRW-1232, and TDK
CRD-BP1300PT will be locked until rebooted. But Lite-on LTR-12101B won't
be locked.
I have tried to add "unlock" command in my own burning program. It worked. I
guess that windows burning programs also do it. BTW, there is another way to
resolve this problem. You could send a "soft rest" command to reset cdrws.
Good luck!
Jack Ciao
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