Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

"Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:

> I get the following error:
> andrey@andrey ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\
> Professional/shared/vLite.iso
> cdrecord: No write mode specified.
> cdrecord: Asuming -sao mode.
> cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao.
> cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive
> dependent defaults.
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a53 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright
> (C) 1995-2008 JÃ?rg Schilling
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise
> RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING:
> Cannot do mlockall(2).
> cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
> cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
> cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
> scsidev: 'ATA:1,0,0'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
> Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/hd*'. Cannot
> open or use SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>

You did not install cdrecord correctly (suid root is needed).
You called cdrecord with an outdated dev= argument.

Jörg

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