On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 18:23 -0700, Calvin Dodge wrote: > Hello, > > I have a TDK IndiDVD CD/DVD writer (1280B) which won't write DVDs properly in Core 3. > > FWIW, all available updates have been applied. > > It WILL burn CDs just fine, but when I burn a DVD, no DVD reader of mine (including > the aforementioned burner) can read it. Have you tried different DVD media? We have seen this type of problem, even with name-brand, with some batches of DVD-R media. > I have successfully booted from a burn of > the Core 3 DVD iso, but had to do a network install at that point, since it couldn't > see the filesystem. > > I've been using cdrecord - is that a mistake? Or was the TDK the mistake, and should > I purchase another brand? This happens with both TDK and Verbatim DVD+R disks, so I don't > think media is an issue. > > The command I've been trying (with little variations after the first couple of failures) is: > > cdrecord -v -dao -data FC3-i386-DVD.iso > > The "-dao" flag is due to the drive reporting that it doesn't do "tao". I've tried varying the > speed, with no luck. > > And this happens with the root account (with no security error notes in /var/log/messages), so > I don't believe this is a permissions issue. > > So, does anyone have any hints for me? Try k3b - as root to avoid possible user-problems. Phil
