K3B fails to burn DVD-RW discs

Mark Haney mhaney at interactsys.com
Thu Sep 30 20:47:04 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 11:09, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> I just got my Optorite  DVDRW, drive (12x DVD+R; 8x DVD-R; 4x DVD+-RW; 
> 2.4x DVD+R9; 40x CD-R; 24x CD-RW; 40x CD-ROM; 12x DVD-ROM) drive from 
> Newegg and have just installed it. It is 2ndry IDE Master (/dev/hdc 
> /mnt/cdrom) I also have a Sony 52x CD-ROM, which is 2ndry IDE Slave 
> (/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1). I have one TDK 2.4x DVD+RW 4.7GB disc and a 10 
> pack of Legacy 4x DVD+RW 4.7GB discs, but I am unable to burn on either 
> of them. I checked my fstab file, and the drive automounts CDs fine (in 
> KDE) and I just tested the burner by erasing and then recording a Compaq 
> 650mb CD-RW, which was a success. Maybe this drive is not supported in K3B?

> ============
> 
> When I ejected the blank DVD+RW's after the failed burn, they appear to 
> have data written on the inner part of the disc, but K3B doesn't even 
> start the write before it fails. Also, my KDE desktop keeps refreshing 
> as if something is going on in the background, and I am unable to eject 
> the blank disk without rebooting.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

While that's a lot of information (which is a GOOD THING (tm)) you
didn't include the kernel version you have.  At least not that I could
find.  If it's 2.6.8-1.521 you need to run k3b as root (su - or sudo)
otherwise it won't burn.



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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
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