On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Shawn P. Garbett wrote: > I just installed a CDRW HP9500i on my box and I'm using Debian Sid. > > I went throught HOWTO, up to the point of writing to the CDRW. > > I typed the following command: > "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image" > and got the following response: > "Cdrecord 1.10a18 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM > cdrecord: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 4198400 Bytes on /dev/zero." > > Any ideas? > > I'm using a 2.2.18pre21 kernel. >
this is the problem - apprantly the unstable version of cdrecord was compiled with a 2.4 kernel, and something isn't compatible, so you can either upgrade to a 2.4 kernel, recompile (as someone else suggested) or downgrade to the potato version of cdrecord cheers dc -------------------------------------------------------- Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them as fast as possible, so they can hurry up again in order to rush down again. In a way this is funny,... Francis A Schaeffer David Purton http://www.chariot.net.au/~dcpurton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]