[juneau-lug] Problem solved: Failure to recognize a DVD

  • From: Larry Hurlock <larrynorte@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 01:37:57 -0800 (PST)

Kevin,

Thanks for hanging in there with me.  Was able to get system to recognize a 
blank DVD by booting with one in the drive.  The sys just passed over it and 
installed the OS -- with the DVD recognized and icon on desktop. Now, even 
after sys shutdown, it recognized the blank.  Go figure.

Brasero was still not very helpful, so loaded K3b as you suggested.  It said 
the DVD (unlike my Sony CD's apparently) was not pre-formatted.  Did so and of 
course the rest was a cakewalk.

Thanks again,
Larry

--- On Sat, 3/5/11, Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Failure to recognize a DVD
> To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9:25 PM
> 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
> -- 
> Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
> Juneau, Alaska
> In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred
> Linux
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