[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[Steve Baker]

I'm planning to upgrade my main box from SuSE 9.3 to OpenSuSE 11.0, so I 
need to burn a DVD full of freshly downloaded goodies.  Sadly, my aging 
CD-Writer can't write DVD's - so I went out and bought a shiney new $40 
Pioneer DVR-116D and a box of DVD-RW disks - which the drive claims to 
be able to write at 20x.  It claims to be able to write all of the 
combinations of -RW, -R, +RW, etc.

I'm using K3b for burning disks...been using it for years.

I can burn CD-ROMs with the new drive - no problem - so it's obviously 
connected up alright.  But K3b refuses to burn an iso-DVD.

It picks up the drive name OK - it recommended that I turn on IDE DMA 
for it - which I did - and it recommended that I remove the drive's 
entry in /etc/fstab - which I did.  I tried upgrading to the latest 
version of K3b - it doesn't make a difference.  It looks like K3d 
doesn't recognise that there is a disk in the tray - it keeps telling me 
to load a disk and no matter what I do with the drive's disk tray - K3d 
just doesn't seem to notice.

Seems weird that it can detect that a CD is in the drive but not a DVD.

At this point, I'm completely stuck.  I can't imagine how this could be 
going wrong.  Help!

   -- Steve.