Andrew Kelly wrote:
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
Thanks for the reply. I wondered about that also, and double checked the
disks, and when I rebooted
into XP could write to the same disk fine. It seems to be something to
do with the HP cdwriter 8100.
I can copy a music disk in K3B fine, but it chokes when I try to copy a
"data" disk.
Is anyone aware of any specific driver issues with this hardware?
Thanks again.
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