How do you write dvds?

[Margaret Doll]

On Nov 13, 2008, at 10:29 AM, mark wrote:

> Margaret Doll wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:35 PM, mark wrote:
>>
>>> Margaret Doll wrote:
>>>> I have installed k3b on one of the RedHat systems, but it doesn't
>>>> recognize
>>>> any of the dvds that I have tried.
>>>>
>>>>   HP  DVD+r 16x 4.7 Gb/120 Min
>>>>   Memorex DVD-R 16x 4.7 Gb 120 min
>>>>   Memorex DVD+R 16x 4.7 Gb 120 min
>>>>   imation DVD-R 16X 4.7 Gb, 2 hour
>>>>
>>>> I have Dell Optiplex GC620 hardware.
>>>>
>>>> What DVDs do you use?
>>>>
>>> Cheap Phillips DVD+R.
>>>
>>> Hmmm. how did you try to use it? Open "New Data DVD Project", and
>>> after that,
>>> you're saying that in the upper left hand window, it's showing the  
>>> DVD
>>> burner,
>>> but no medium?
>>
>> That's right.
>>
>> I have tried k3b, cdrecord which comes with RedHat and cdrecord
>> installed from the source in /usr/local.
>>
>> I can write cds, but I cannot write dvds.  I think there is a problem
>> with the drives.
>
> That begins to sound like the case. I recently tried to make a music  
> CD, and it
> wouldn't recognize the medium, but then I realized I'd put in a DVD.
>
> Question: will it *read* DVDs?

I was able to write the dvd on a aux drive.    The newly creted dvd  
can be read on the cd/dvd reader, but not on the cd/dvd writer.  /mnt/ 
cdrom can read,  /mnt/cdrom1 cannot.

Its the drive.

Thanks to everyone for the debugging help.  k3b is a nice program.
>
>
> 	mark
>
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