On 01/09/2017 10:15 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> [17-01-10 05:12]: >> On 01/09/2017 02:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to burn an iso image onto a rewritable >>> CD (CD-RW) with k3b. >>> >>> I loaded the empty CDRW medium into the burner. >>> >>> I started k3b. >>> >>> Top left it says: >>> >>> "Empty CDRW-medium" >>> >>> I pressed "Burn ISO". >>> >>> A dialog pops up, asking for a ISO image >>> which did select. >>> >>> Then it calculates the Hash and asked >>> me "Please insert an empty medium" >>> >>> "Okay", I thought, "may erasing helps!" >>> >>> I choosed "Erase CDRW". A dialog pops >>> up and offers "Start", which I pressed. >>> >>> Instantly another error dialog pop up, which >>> seems to be presented by another, foreign >>> OS...it looks so familiar, saying: >>> >>> "Found medium: Empty CD-RW medium >>> Please insert rewritable CD medium into drive." >>> >>> Lost? >>> >>> What went so badly here? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Meino >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Question for you : >> >> Did you format the CD-RW media first? ( Yes, it must be formatted before >> anything gets written. ) >> >> >> >> > Answer for you: > Yes > > > >
You would not believe how many do NOT know to do that first. :) That screwy error you got can very easily be from hardware not properly setting up. If you are willing to troubleshoot, there are some things to check. First check ... in the dmesg log, does the kernel see the burner? ( it seems the SFF / ATAPI devices can have problems, with having to go communicate through the kernels ahci layer ) sample from my dmesg log : [ 2.027722] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 2.031197] ata4: FORCE: cable set to sata [ 2.031332] ata4.00: FORCE: horkage modified (noncq) [ 2.031459] ata4.00: FORCE: horkage modified (atapi_dmadir) [ 2.031576] ata4.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208M, 1.50, max UDMA/100, DMADIR [ 2.035319] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 2.046988] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM PIONEER BD-RW BDR-208M 1.50 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.089230] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 125x/125x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 2.089422] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 2.089656] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 2.089723] sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 NOTE : this is a BD-RW drive. The kernel has to be forced to recognize it. The kernel parameter : libata.force=4.00:sata,1.5,noncq,atapi_dmadir The reason I ask, is that if the kernel can't or hasn't recognized it, the wrong command sets are used. Hope this helps.
