On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 20:59 +0930, Tim wrote: > Paul Erickson: > >> I keep getting an "Insert a writable or blank disc" message > > Andrew Kelly: > > I discovered that the 3 disks which I been trying to use had been, er... > > grabbed from the wrong stack. They weren't blank. > > > > So, user error on my part. > > > > Although, to my defence I have to say that absolutely no helpful message > > is returned. Something as simple as "disk not blank" would have saved me > > a ton of stress and a wasted hour. > > *You* didn't get the message about inserting a *writable* or *blank* > disc? The inference is that the one in the drive *isn't*. Yes, agreed. But that's the same message you get when you first fire things up and/or the drive is empty. It doesn't change a whit when you try to feed it non-blank disks and the assumption that us mortals make is that the crap isn't working. In fact, I think I actually yelled "What is this MS BS?" Heck, I'd still be assuming that the Nautilus burner didn't survive the trip to FC7 if I hadn't have swapped to a different bit of software and gotten a useful hint. Wait, let's be honest here. That message was crap too, but at least it got me questioning things. Sometimes it's like the last decade of administering *nix systems never happened... Turn 40 and the warranty runs out. Junk starts breaking. [sigh] Andy > -- > (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > >
