ive never been able to use my cheap £shop rw dvd's. I think someone here suggested just keep searching for a brand of DVDrw that works!
2009/5/27 Tony Travis <a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk> > Hello, Ubuntistas. > > I've been struggling for a while trying to work out what is wrong with > the DVD writer on my Asus A6K laptop under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Seems that > the answer is there is nothing wrong with the hardware, but the Gnome > DVD burning libraries can only write to virgin DVD media, or DVD media > that has been 'fully' erased: > > sudo dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/dvd > > Not only does this take a long time, but it also uses up the DVD writer > laser unnecessarily if you are going to write to the DVD-RW anyway. My > work-around was prompted by the diagnostics produced by: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso > > Apparently, if you repeat the "-dvd-compat" it forces DAO (Disk At Once) > mode, which does not require the DVD-RW to be erased: > > growisofs -dvd-compat -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso > > Fortunately, I discovered this in time to retrieve all my 'unuseable' > DVD-RW's from the bin. How does everyone else re-use their DVD-RW's? > > BTW, I already know about "k3b" ;-) > > Bye, > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition > and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK > tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk > mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Javad
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