fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:23 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:03 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> > On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam <lkvam at venix.com> wrote:
> > >> Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
> > >> busy)... retrying in 1 second.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes.  I think the retry
> > > succeeds.
> > 
> >   Right, because the auto-thingies all work by polling the device.  So
> > if they happen to be polling the device when wodim tries to open it,
> > you get the warning.  Then they close the present poll, and wodim
> > retries, and it works.  Then, during the middle of the write, they
> > poll again, and kablooie.
> > 
> >   At least, that's my theory.
> 
> Well I shutdown to single user mode.  wodim chugs along until it thinks
> it has written 26 MB and then decides that things are not working.  The
> CD media still appears to be blank.
> 
> I have downloaded the cdrtools from berlios.de and will see if that
> makes a difference.  I just need to be careful about fouling up my
> fedora 7 stuff.

What about going the other way around?  Try the GUI CD burner - you
should be able to right-click on the .iso and select "Write to
Disc...".  
-- 
Stephen Ryan
Dartware, LLC