CD\DVD-RW Writting Problem (Newbee)

[Chris Taylor]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:08:12 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> On 06/15/2009 06:01 AM, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> I had a win with Kubuntu I got it to write to a cd still no dvd I used
>> K3B that is why I used KDE to give it the best chance of working Chris
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:14:49 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> HI can anyone help me please I'm new to linux please be very simple in
>>> answers
>>> I have just upgrade to  "Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope - released
>>> in April 2009."
>>> I have K3B Brasero Disk Burner installed but I can't write to the
>>> CD/DVD- RW. I believe it is a permission setting but but know where to
>>> find to fix
>>> Please if you would be so kind to help
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> It may be possible that the drive is bad. I have seen cases where a
> CD/DVD would read a CD, but not a DVD. In that case the DVD laser was
> bad. Does the drive work (read/write) in a different OS or machine?

worked just fine in wondoze XP Home same computer just changed to ubuntu