Being a newbie is no excuse for this oversight if that is what this is all about. I used the only bland media I had at hand (dumb) it was DVD+RW So if I am understanding correctly I should be using an R not an RW and not DVD. After I hear back I will truck on down the road to wal-mart and get a better burning media. Thanks Allen <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Bart Silverstrim <<a href="mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com">bsilver@chrononomicon.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">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 ( > <a href="http://cdburnerxp.se/" target="_blank">http://cdburnerxp.se/</a>). 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. </div>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. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Allen Meyers <a href="mailto:texas.chef94@gmail.com">texas.chef94@gmail.com</a>