[lubuntu-users] Xfburn & External USB Burner

[Jerry]

Israel wrote:
> On 06/04/2016 05:34 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> I am running Lubuntu 16.04 64bit on a Lenovo X140e with the "AMD A4-5000
>> APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics" CPU, and a 500GB hard drive.
>>
>> I am having a problem with Xfburn seeing my ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U external
>> USB 2.0 CD/DVD burner.
>>
>> When I connect it to the laptop, it shows up in Devices. I can
>> play video DVDs from it just fine. But, when I right click on a .iso
>> file to burn it to a DVD+RW disc and select Xfburn, Xfburn give a 
>> pop-up that
>> says "No burners are currently available".
>>
>> If I open Xfburn from the Menu, and go into Edit > Preferences >
>> Devices, the burner is not listed under Detected devices. If I click on
>> 'Scan for devices' it still does not detect the drive.
>>
>> I found a work-around for this here:
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/232026/external-dvd-writer-not-detected-in-xfburn 
>>
>>
>> There was no .rules files in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory, so I
>> created a '70-persistent-cd.rules' file and copied in the rule from
>> that page, inserting the serial number for my drive, which I got from
>> running 'usbview'.
>>
>> Here's the rule I put into the file I created:
>> SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", 
>> ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="00101016400000005", ENV{ID_TYPE}="cd", 
>> ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>>
>> The filename is:
>> 70-persistent-cd.rules
>>
>> I then rebooted and still Xfburn does not see the external burner.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> Honestly I use brasero personally.
> So, now to the real question you asked :D
> Is the ISO you are using complete?  (Did you run md5sum on it)
> Have you tried other programs (Brasero, K3B any command line tools?)

Yes, the md5sum was checked and good.

On Lubuntu, no I didn't try Brasero or and other burning method.   I did 
open Synaptic and selected Brasero for installation, but when I saw all 
of the deps that it required I thought I would mention the problem to 
this list to see if there was a known fix for Xfburn, instead of 
installing Brasero.

>
> And finally, can you open xfburn from a terminal and report the errors 
> it spits out in the terminal, those are generally very useful for 
> finding issues.

When I open xfburn from a terminal all I get is a pop up window saying 
"No burners are currently available" and this in the terminal: "** 
Message: Using UDEV".

>
> I have not had any issues with either of the external DVD/RW dirves I 
> have used over the years, but again I do not use xfburn, because I had 
> troubles with it 5 years ago, and have not had problems with brasero.

My external drive works fine on other distributions on this same 
netbook, albeit with Brasero.

>
> So try another program first to see if it is simply xfburn that is the 
> issue

I guess I'll just install Brasero.
>
> Also, making a USB drive to boot is extremely easy with certain 
> programs (such as mkusb) and will work on many computers :)

Thanks, I'll try out mkusb.