CD-R/W not working

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 11:53:30 Jimmy Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a relatively fresh installation of Xubuntu 7.10, and I was trying to
> burn my home directories to an old CD-RW that has stuff on it that I no
> longer wants.  When I pop the CD into my CD-RW drive, it mounts normally,
> and I can see all the stuff on it.  However, Brasero doesn't, and tells me
> there is no disk when I try to erase or burn.
>
> What could be wrong?  (Please excuse my noobish-ness - first attempt at
> working with any sort of CD with Linux)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jimmy

Hi Jimmy

Have you installed cdrtools and udftools I think they are

James