Re: Problems with cdrecord (2.3.99-pre3)

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 13:25:37 EST


On Mon, Mar 27 2000, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
> I have no idea if this is kernel related or not, since I can only use my USB
> CDRW with 2.3.xx, and only a few of those, so I only tested it on the ones I
> had lying around). The drive works ok for reading, so I doubted that it was
> the USB driver.
>
> when I run cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=2 file.iso (or -eject or almost anything
> else)
> I get:
> shmget: shm filesystem not mounted
> cdrecord: Invalid argument. shmget failed

cdrecord uses a shm segment as FIFO, therefore you need to mount the
shm file system. Look at the help for the System V IPC menu option.

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD/DVD-ROM
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