CD/DVD writer
Chris Carlson
cwcarlson at cox.net
Mon Jun 16 14:10:48 UTC 2008
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try.
Chris
joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
> Chris Carlson wrote:
>> I'm using Fedora 9 on a "AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor
>> BE-2350". The system (an eMachines computer) came with a CD/DVD
>> read/write drive (Optiarc Model: DVD RW AD-7200A Rev: 1.W1). When
>> I load a blank DVD-R in the drive, an icon appears that tells me I've
>> got a blank DVD in the drive. I double-click the icon, and CD/DVD
>> Creator pops up. I drag/drop files into the window and then tell it
>> to "Write to Disc". It thinks for a while, then pops up a little
>> window with the very clear and informative message, "Error!" I can
>> find no information on what the error is or what I can do about it.
>
> Hi,
>
> I had similar problems when burning CDs/DVDs (on the gnome desktop),
> but I partially could bypass them by stopping the HAL daemon before
> burning (with cdrecord/growisofs).
>
> When booting into a pure console environment (init mode 3), I got rid
> from all such problems.
>
>>
>> Thinking that the brand of CD/DVD writer was the problem, I installed
>> an older drive that I had from a previous computer (TSSTcorp Model:
>> CD/DVDW TS-H552B Rev: TS02). I get precisely that same results.
>>
>> I have also tried installing a blank CD-R. This works somewhat
>> similar but doesn't even provide me an "Error!" popup. I see
>> something pop up quickly and immediately disappear, but nothing seems
>> to be written. I've tried this with both drives as well with
>> identical results.
>>
>> After discovering my sound didn't work because of a security setting,
>> I'm wondering if there is some security setting for writing
>> CDs/DVDs. I've modified all my /dev files related to the two drives
>> to rw-rw-rw-, but that doesn't seem to help.
>>
>> I put a DVD-RAM disk in the Optiarc drive, and I was able to copy a
>> gob of data to it. It's unreadable by Windows, but it proves to me
>> that the drive writes.
>>
>> Both drives can read CDs and DVDs without a problem.
>>
>> Below is the info determined by the kernel for the two drives (sr0 is
>> the TSSTcorp drive and sr1 is the Optiarc drive).
>>
>> cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom//info
>> CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17
>>
>> drive name: sr1 sr0
>> drive speed: 48 48
>> drive # of slots: 1 1
>> Can close tray: 1 1
>> Can open tray: 1 1
>> Can lock tray: 1 1
>> Can change speed: 1 1
>> Can select disk: 0 0
>> Can read multisession: 1 1
>> Can read MCN: 1 1
>> Reports media changed: 1 1
>> Can play audio: 1 1
>> Can write CD-R: 1 1
>> Can write CD-RW: 1 1
>> Can read DVD: 1 1
>> Can write DVD-R: 1 1
>> Can write DVD-RAM: 1 0
>> Can read MRW: 1 1
>> Can write MRW: 1 1
>> Can write RAM: 1 1
>>
>>
>> Are there any settings or other places I should look for a problem?
>> Is this a Fedora bug? I'll file a bug if I'm not the only one seeing
>> this problem.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list