Writable CD not recognized (Ubuntu 7.10)

[Connelley Barton]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:46 +0100, Joshua Werling wrote:
> I am pretty new to Linux, had ventured into it a few times before (but
> only short trips), and decided about one and a half months ago to turn
> my private computing over to Linux (from WinXP).  For several reasons I
> chose Ubuntu and was impressed with where the project stands when it
> comes to usability.  Unfortunately, somehow my system does not recognize
> writable CDs as such, it only sees them as CD-ROM.  I am using a DELL
> Dimension 8100, not sure what brand my CD burner is, it shows up in
> programs such as Sound Juicer as "CD-RW CED-8120B."
> 
> To make a long story short: I tried to find solutions to this problem
> (as I had done with graphics issues and some other issues), but I feel
> this problem is going "too deep" into Linux for me to be able to really
> understand it, let alone apply the fix(es?) I have stumbled upon.  I
> read it might be connected to HAL not supporting some type of
> information check on the CD drive or the CD itself by default anymore
> and that this seems to apply to older drives.  One guy offered some sort
> of HAL patch he had written to get CD burning to work on his system, but
> I could not really follow him on how to apply it and what exactly those
> changes would mean (would not want to break my system, you know) ... so
> I am still w/o CD burning. :-(
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Joshua
> 
Try k3b as a CD/DVD writer and see if it recognizes your CD-Rs.  

I know that I had a problem with Nautilus Creator when I started.  In
fact, I was ready to throw out some off-brand CD-Rs as not usable until
someone suggested k3b.

Connelley