[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[Rick Cook]

Steve,

Have you checked permissions on the device k3b is pointing to for DVDs. We 
are still using SUSE 9.3 on one of our "lab" networks at work. To 
identical machines with theoretically identical installations of SUSE 9.3 
work differently. Mine could write DVDs and CDs with equal ease. The 
orther could write CDs but, similar to yours, would not detect DVD media. 
It turned out that running k3b with root privileges made the DVD media 
magically appear.

If you still live in Cedar Hill (and can't get the DVD written soon), I 
can meet you somewhere and give you an openSUSE DVD. You want i586 or 
x86_64?


Rick Cook

On Saturday 06 September 2008 21:20:38 Steve Baker wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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