Writing CD is driving me crazy.using xcdroast

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 09:54 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 10:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 May 2008 22:30, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > I have done his before but I can't do it now.
> > >
> > > I start xcdroast and go though the setup. My CD device is found.
> > > I then I go to Master Tracks and my CD device is indicated.
> > > I set up the session I want to burn but at the top of the display it
> > > indicates no CD Loaded.
> > >
> > > Sure enough when I got to burn the CD on the fly I get a message there
> > > is no CD in the drive. I can see the Blank CD on my desktop.
> > >
> > > This works in WinXP. Where have I gone wrong?
> > >
> > Have you checked that the CD isn't mounted?  It may be the wrong error 
> > message.  I think you have to have the CD available but not mounted before 
> > you can burn.
> > 
> > Anne
> > 
> I thought of that.. But How do you check if the CD is mounted?
>  I unchecked the two options under Preferences->Hardware->Removable Drives and Media
> that seem to be related to that.
> Running mount does not show the CD mounted but I still see the image of 
> thew CD on the Desktop. So I am stumped. Any further help out there? k3b does the same thing..

Really stupid question: are you sure the CD is in a burner and not
simply a reader? Does k3b say "no media present" in the top left corner,
or does it simply fail when you try to do a burn?

poc