15.10 Troubleshooting
15.10.1 Permissions
At times you might find that root can blank and burn CDs but not a user. You may get the message:
This might be because cdrecord has not been installed with the setuid flag set, and thus the user does not have enough permissions. Fix this with:
or
15.10.2 No mode page data received
Occasionally the following error is reported on Athene when using cdrdao to write a CD:
Starting write ERROR: No mode page data received
ERROR: Cannot retrieve drive capabilities mode page.
at speed 0...
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
ERROR: No mode page data received.
ERROR: Cannot retrieve write parameters mode page.
ERROR: Cannot setup write parameters for session-at-once mode.
ERROR: Please try to use the 'generic-mmc-raw' driver.
ERROR: Writing failed. A simple solution is to remove the ide-cd module and try again:
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