[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[david]

Steve Baker wrote:
> terry wrote:
>   
>> Are you sure you have a good DVD+R disk in the drive? - Maybe what you have
>> is a defective DVD disk?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Well, the problem was with DVD-RW's - nor DVD+R's.   However, I just 
> bought a box of DVD+R's
> and the drive writes them just fine (which means I can finally get SuSE 
> 11.0 installed).
>
> So CD-R's, DVD+R's, non-blank DVD-RW's and video DVD's all work just 
> fine - but blank
> DVD-RW's aren't recognised.
>
> It couldn't be a single blank disk that's the problem because I tried 
> several disks out of the same
> batch.   It also can't be that the entire batch of disks are bad because 
> I tried doing this:
>
> 1) Take a blank DVD-RW.
> 2) Write to it with a different computer (works OK)
> 3) Put the disk into my machine.
> 4) The drive recognises it just fine.
> 5) Tell it to erase the disk...which it does without problems.
> 6) ...and it immediately says that there is no disk in the drive.
>
> So that must have been a "good" disk - yet it fails.
>
> Oh well - I'll just by DVD+RW's in future and write it off to 
> experience.  But the drive
> box - and what K3b reads from the actual drive - both say that it can 
> write DVD-RW's.
>
> Very weird.
>
>   -- Steve.
>
>
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When you installed the new burner did you install any software?
You might need to install dvd+rw-tools.