can't burn CDs

Mark Stone mark.stone at gmail.com
Sat May 13 18:21:05 UTC 2006


I'm having a real problem under Breezy getting my  CD burner to work.
When attempting to use either Serpentine to burn and audio CD, or
Nautilus to burn a data CD, I get to the point where I am prompted to
put in a blank CD, and then this prompt just repeats: the system never
recognizes that I have put in a blank CD.

A couple of things I've checked:
- /dev/cdrw appears to point to the right place, namely /dev/hda (my
hard drives on this system are all scsi)
- If I boot a live CD of a different Linux distro (in this case
"System Rescue CD") then I have no problem burning CDs, so it's
clearly not a hardware issue.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The documentation on
Serpentine is pretty sparse.


-Mark




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