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noworldorder
January 27th, 2012, 11:58 PM
Ubuntu 11.10

It is not recognizing blank dvds in the drive - not showing up in nautelis and brazario cannot see it. However, if there is a dvd with a file on it it is recognized.

No luck with k3b... When I run it it says:


No CD/DVD/BD writer found.
K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you will not be able to burn CDs or DVDs.

Any ideas?
noworldorder
February 11th, 2012, 12:14 AM
Bump... please help - I cannot find a solution to this anywhere... :confused:
winh8r
February 11th, 2012, 12:35 AM
have you got cdrdao installed?
noworldorder
February 11th, 2012, 12:48 AM
have you got cdrdao installed?

Thanks for the reply... Yes I do have that installed
winh8r
February 11th, 2012, 01:18 AM
what is the *-cdrom part of the output from the command:


sudo lshw
noworldorder
February 11th, 2012, 01:25 AM
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: DVD-ROM DS-8D3SH
vendor: PLDS
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: HD13
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
winh8r
February 11th, 2012, 09:40 AM
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: DVD-ROM DS-8D3SH
vendor: PLDS
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: HD13
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Looks like that is your problem then. Your drive is a DVD reader only.
DVD-ROM = READ ONLY MEMORY.

You will need to acquire a DVD RW (READ+WRITE) drive in order to record to DVD.
The ooutput you should see is like this for a DVD writer drive:
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: CD/DVDW TS-H552D
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: HP06
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc





Hope this helps you.


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