On 19/08/12 09:02 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,

Mike Scheutzow wrote:
do you think that this user
could be having the well-known "udev polls the dvd" problem?
That can cause a block device to appear to be read-only.
Well if it does cause such effects then it is surely worth a
try to disable it.

udev and hald are the natural enemies of burn programs.
We compete for the same hardware and the OS normally does not
care about arbitrating.
Nevertheless, i would have expected that the block device
driver gets more respect by udev.


Here's one hit from google
(different symptom, but solution would be the same):
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1399/dvd-drive-constanly-spins-up-down-when-idle
It advises to try:
   udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/dvd
or
   udisks --inhibit-polling /dev/sr0

Do you have more information about udev causing read-only optical
media ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Tried that. With no media in the drive, I started udisks then inserted a blank disk and tried to mkudffs on it (in a different root terminal). It failed with the same read-only error.


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5030e783.9090...@rogers.com

Reply via email to