Hello... On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 10:35, David Krider wrote: > 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? > > dk > You might try: lsof | grep scd0 and you might also try turning off 'smartd', IIRC smartd will hold a device open. IIRC, I was trying to 'sfdisk' a drive and smartd was the culprit in preventing it from working. -- Christopher McCrory "The guy that keeps the servers running" chrismcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pricegrabber.com Let's face it, there's no Hollow Earth, no robots, and no 'mute rays.' And even if there were, waxed paper is no defense. I tried it. Only tinfoil works.
