CD-R/W not working

[James Takac]

On Thursday 06 December 2007 08:07:43 Jimmy Wu wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 9:16 PM, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> Hi James,
>
> I looked for cdrtools and the package doesn't seem to exist.  I installed
> udftools, but that didn't change anything.  I went looking around for
> manuals and managed to get a CD burned with mkisofs and cdrecord, but I
> still would like to know what's wrong with brasero.  It shows the name of
> the CD-R/W drive (HP 9300), but says no disc even when there is clearly a
> disk inside that even gets mounted properly by the OS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jimmy



Hi Jimmy

Seems it may have been changed to cdrskin. Check also for cdrdao. The other 
possibility is that brasero might not like the drive. May be worth trying 
k3b. I think I had probs with brasero but not sure as it's been a while since 
I used that

James