[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[Gilbert Morrow]

Had a Sony drive in PCLinuxOS do the same thing , was the media not the
drive .

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org> wrote:

> rp8034l wrote:
> > Try running "k3b" from a terminal window. It appears to generate quite
> > a bit of diagnostic output.
> >
> >
> I did - the output was included in an earlier post.  It essentially says
> that the K3b's command to close the drive door was terminated with a
> "NOT READY" message from the driver.  It does that for blank DVD-RW's
> but not for CD-R's (blank or otherwise) and not for video DVD's or for
> DVD-RW's that have already been written to.
>
> That seems to be the heart of the problem - it seems to have a 'thing'
> about blank DVD-RW's...but I have no clue how to proceed from there to a
> solution.
>
> Tomorrow I'll buy some DVD+RW's and see if they fare any better.
>
>  -- Steve
>
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