Cannot open blank DVDs under 14.04

[Phil]

On 09/19/2014 07:34 PM, Peter Smout wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The line "[  348.261948] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram
> cd/rw " shows cd/rw (CD Read / Write) but only dvd-ram NOT dvd-rw or
> dvd/rw which leads me to think it IS NOT a DVD burner just a player try
> with a writeable CD to see if that works!!
>
> If the burning of DVD's was possible using the same hardware on Vista,
> then to my thinking the drive is not being recognised as a burner
> (except for CD's), and that is a whole other 'can o worms'
>

I just looked up the specs (Asus SDRW-08D2S-U) and this one line:

"Record onto DVD-R (SL/DL), DVD+R (SL/DL), CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-RW and 
DVD-RAM quickly"

As I say, Vista does open blank DVDs (-RW and +RW) but I don't have any 
suitable Windows software to prove that the drive does write to DVDs.

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Regards,
Phil