Lucid Beta 2 doesn't see CD blanks

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/04/10 01:14, Li Li wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:52 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 13/04/10 00:41, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>      
>>> On 04/12/2010 08:03 AM, Li Li wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> My Lucid beta 2 install (updated completely [I think] at about 1200 UTC
>>>> Monday) doesn't detect known good CD or CD-RW blanks.  This computer
>>>> dual boots Mint-8 and everything works perfectly well there.  In fact,
>>>> that's where I made the CD I installed Lucid from.
>>>>          
> <snip>
>    
>>
>>
>> For my money I don't really believe in doing an upgrade to get to a new
>> release - be it a beta release or a final release. There could be just
>> too many bits left over from the older installation to cause problems -
>> just like the one in this thread.
>>
>> Secondly, contrary to popular belief I think it is prudent to reboot the
>> computer to make sure that the latest files are read in to replace the
>> ones sitting in RAM from the older version of the distro (beta or final).
>>      
> Basil, Thanks for your reply.
>
> This is a new install of the Lucid beta-2, updated today from the Lucid
> sources so that everything is current, not an update from Karmic or
> anything else.
>
> Naturally, I've re-booted several times in the process of verifying that
> CD writing works perfectly well in the Mint-8 installation on the same
> machine.  Still doesn't work in Lucid; still works very well in
> Mint-8.
>
> Everything else works wonderfully in Lucid.  I just can't think of how
> to troubleshoot this problem.
>    

I am running Lucid beta 1 and a few days ago I bought an Epson scanner 
which I installed and it is working fine. But the instructions which 
came with it are a single page of paper while the full manual is on a CD 
- and I want to read that manual to find out about something.

Well, the CD is for Windows, of course, and when I went to look at it in 
Lucid it simply would not show up as a CD for me to be able to view its 
contents and read the manual. When I insert it in the drive, nothing 
happens. I am still working out why I cannot see it in Lucid - but I'll 
get there :-) .

What I am getting to here is maybe you ought to try another brand of CD 
or at least try using another CD from the same spindle - its' possible 
that the CD is somehow bad. This is probably not the reason but it is 
still worth testing. What happens when you try a non-blank CD or a DVD?

BC




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