CD/DVD writer

TV Sivaraman tvsraman at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 12:30:44 UTC 2008


If you want GUI, I would suggest you install brasero (yum install brasero).
It is a simple CD/DVD burner. It is the default on Ubuntu.
Sivaraman.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Chris Carlson <cwcarlson at cox.net> 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.
>
> 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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