Help! DVD-RW drive access/writing error

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:58 -0400, Gary Waters wrote:
> Hello from newbieland!
> 
> I'm running FC8. Everything has been working fine until I tried to
> make a backup DVD this morning. I inserted the blank, the nautilus
> Disc burning interface popped up...it said  "Choose disc type"...I
> chose "Make DVD." When I click "write to disc" and subsequently click
> on "Write," I get the following error message:
> 
> Error writing to disc
> There was an error writing to the disc:
> The recorder could not be accessed.
> 
> I also noticed K3B also does not find a drive. The drive itself works
> fine in windows. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this one. Googling
> resulted in very sketchy information. Thie is a acer aspire 3680
> notebook. I have created DVD's with it quite a few times in the past,
> but haven't used it much recently. I have no idea what caused this
> change. Help! Please!

Take a look at the thread starting at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-August/msg03824.html
for some ideas on what to try.

poc