[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

rp8034l rp8034l at flash.net
Mon Sep 8 00:34:45 CDT 2008


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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Try running "k3b" from a terminal window. It appears to generate quite
a bit of diagnostic output.


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Richard P




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