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

  • From: Kevin Miller <atftb2@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:43:52 -0900

On 03/06/2011 12:37 AM, Larry Hurlock wrote:
> 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,

More than welcome. I won't pretend to understand why that worked, but 
glad you got it sorted out.

I think, by definition blank CD/DVDs are unformatted - otherwise you'd 
have to have one box for audio, one for video, one for data, etc.  I've 
never seen that pop up before.  If it was blank, when K3b started I'd 
just pick what sort of disk I wanted and then add the appropriate 
content.  Maybe there are multiple levels of formatting R/W media 
similar to the low-level format that a hard drive has which has to be 
done before formatting it with a particular file system (ext2, ext3, 
reiser, etc.)

S'later...

...Kevin
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