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  1. Bug #75753
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 75753

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Patrick (patrick-voegeli) wrote :

Same here. When trying to erase a cd-rw using wodim:
patrick@patrick-desktop:~$ wodim -format
Quickly guessing the name of a drive capable to write CD-R, please wait...
Found /dev/cdrw, assuming dev=/dev/cdrw
Error trying to open /dev/cdrw exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/cdrw exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/cdrw exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/cdrw exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/cdrw exclusively (Device or resource busy)... giving up.
wodim: No such file or directory.
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.
patrick@patrick-desktop:~$ ls -la /dev/cdrw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-02-18 16:12 /dev/cdrw -> hda
patrick@patrick-desktop:~$ ls -la /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 3, 0 2007-02-18 16:12 /dev/hda

running kernel 2.6.20-8-generic