[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[terry]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org> 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.
>
>
Are you sure you have a good DVD+R disk in the drive? - Maybe what you have
is a defective DVD disk?

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