Re: /dev/scd0 in use?

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Krider (david davidkrider com) said: 
> I'm trying to copy a CD (the burnt iso's, actually) from my CDR to my
> CD-RW. I'm getting the following ``Error trying to open /dev/scd0
> exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.'' I'm even trying to do it as
> root. This was never a problem before. Everything's SCSI. fuser shows
> that nothing has it. What's this mean and how do I fix it?

It means the device is open by something else, and therefore
it won't burn. One of the things done in the final release is
locking of CD/DVD-R/RW drives, so that you don't have other
processes interfering with burns.

Is one of the drives mounted? Is magicdev or autorun running
on the drive? How are you copying?

Bill