CD-R/W not working

[Jimmy Wu]

On Dec 5, 2007 8:09 PM, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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All right - I will try those suggestions when I get the chance.  Just out of
curiosity, isn't brasero a GNOME application?  If so, what is it doing as
the default cd burning application in Xubuntu?  And I see no reason why
brasero would need extra packages when it seems that my system can already
burn CD's.
I think I might go and install xfburn, which was what used to be the default
in xubuntu (IIRC)

Thanks again,

Jimmy
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