Can't burn DVDs

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/31/2009 04:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> I just tried burning a DVD (authored by DeVeDe) and both K3b and
>> GnomeBaker fail to start writing. Clean boot doesn't help, neither does
>> lowering the write speed to 4x.
>> Anyone else having this problem?
>>
> That's because the message says "device not ready" and no change in
> parameters will make it work until you address that. Bad media, bad
> cable, bad burner, I can't tell. It's likely to be hardware, but I
> don't normally use the frontends for the tools, so you may have made a
> mistake in starting the run.

Not at all, CDs burn just fine. It's only the DVDs that don't burn. I've
seen a similar problem many times with fresh kernels. It comes and
goes.. and annoys the hell out of me.