[juneau-lug] Re: Failure to recognize a DVD

  • From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:25:55 -0900

On 03/02/2011 11:49 PM, Larry Hurlock wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> The DVD in question that will not mount is a blank Sony DVD+/RW 4.7G
> disk.  I just bought a spindle of same.  Since I am writing this
> while running Knoppix 6.4 from a DVD disk, the machine is certainly
> capable of physically using DVD's.  In fact, on this new HP Writer,
> the DVD+/RW is supposed to run at 8X, the R at a much faster 24X.

That's really odd.  Have you tried any other brand?  Kind of grasping at 
straws here.

> Brasero running on Ubuntu 10.04 runs a CD/DVD Creator program, but
> the OS will not even load the DVD as recognizable *anywhere*.  It
> will mount a Sony CD/R in a heartbeat for Brasero to write to it.

Hmmm.  I use KDE as my desktop and K3B for a burning app.  It always 
just sees the blank disk and opens K3B (after asking).  Even after K3B 
starts I don't see the blank disk anywhere.  If it's already written to 
I'll see it under /media in some form.

> The DVD does not show on the screen, the system directory listing
> (PLACES) or elsewhere.

If you manually open Brasero, where does it try to write by default? 
Can you set that?
Does /dev/dvd show anything?

...Kevin
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