Burning Live CD

[Bart Silverstrim]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Allen Meyers wrote:
>> No my focus is to repair my CD ROM capability. The exchange between HP 
>> and myself did occur in windows, but only because naturally he knew 
>> nothing about Linux.
>> I In Linux I have tried everything and CD ROM does not recognize blank 
>> media in either OS
>> Any help appreciated
>>
> ok, you CD burner seems to be playing CDs but apparently it does not 
> recognize balnk media for burning.
> Is this correct?
> 
> If so, is this REALLY a CD BURNER (no joke, I had a customer complain 
> that he could not burn ;-)?
> 
> If yes, the only solution I can think of is to try with a different type 
> of blank CD R/RWs.
> 
> Lastly, if all of this fails, I would  suggest to try with CDburner XP ( 
> http://cdburnerxp.se/). It probably will not solve the problem, but it's 
> free and worth a try.
> Ultimately, a new internal burner (they tend to be cheaper that external 
> models) will probably, what you will need.

It's also very possible you have a failure in the laser. I had an Apple 
DVD-R in a MacBook that could read regular CD's but DVD's couldn't be 
read anymore; nothing popped up saying it was malfunctioning, insisted 
it could read/write DVD media, but simply spit out the discs when I 
inserted them.