[ILUG] Do not ever do what I've just done, and can someone help me undo it?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Armbrecht (marmbrecht at eircom.net):

> ...you have to be root to run cdrecord...

...until the day you discover the chgrp or sudo commands.

> I think that in the CD writing area, on the Linux side lots of bugs
> have to be stomped on.

On available evidence, the cause of your hard hang lay in the ATAPI SCSI
emulation layer.  Which, of course, can be eliminated by using hardware
that doesn't need it.  Just a thought.