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
>>
>
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