"No disk / Wrong disk" message when burning CD-RW

[Larry Cook]

VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
>> Is there a way I can reset the device driver or the device itself w/o 
>> rebooting the system?
> 
> If it's an ATAPI cdrom, you might try "hdparm -w /dev/cdrom".  N.B.:
> the "-w" option to hdparm is considered "DANGEROUS".  If you have your
> CD-ROM driver compiled as a module, you could always rmmod/insmod
> again.

Thanks for the info.  I tried "hdparm -w", which logged logged that it 
reset the device, but that didn't make any difference.  I then tried 
another CD-RW and that worked, so maybe I just have a CD-RW that has 
gone bad.

Larry