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Burning CD's don't work on Feisty 7.04

Asked by ice.polar

Hello,
i tried nearly everything but in Nautilus each attempt to burn a CD is quitted with the message that there is no writable media in the drive. Lower Speed doesn't help even the change of media or at least the whole drive didn't result in another message.

/usr/lib/nautilus-cd-burner/list_cddrives gives the following output, with an empty CD-R inside:

Drive:
  name: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A
  device: /dev/hdb
  door: closed
  type: CD-R, CD-RW, CD
  is mounted: FALSE
  max read speed: 5645 KiB/s (CD 37.6x, DVD 4.1x)
  max write speed: 2117 KiB/s (CD 14.1x, DVD 1.5x)
  write speeds: 2100 KiB/s (CD 14.0x, DVD 1.5x)
                        1950 KiB/s (CD 13.0x, DVD 1.4x)
                        1800 KiB/s (CD 12.0x, DVD 1.3x)
                        1650 KiB/s (CD 11.0x, DVD 1.2x)
                        1500 KiB/s (CD 10.0x, DVD 1.1x)
                        1350 KiB/s (CD 9.0x, DVD 0.9x)
                        1200 KiB/s (CD 8.0x, DVD 0.8x)
                        1050 KiB/s (CD 7.0x, DVD 0.7x)
                        900 KiB/s (CD 6.0x, DVD 0.6x)
                        750 KiB/s (CD 5.0x, DVD 0.5x)
                        600 KiB/s (CD 4.0x, DVD 0.4x)
                        450 KiB/s (CD 3.0x, DVD 0.3x)
                        300 KiB/s (CD 2.0x, DVD 0.2x)
                        150 KiB/s (CD 1.0x, DVD 0.1x)

Media:
  label: ''
  type: Unknown Media (blank)
  is writable: FALSE
  is appendable: FALSE
  capacity: Could not be determined
  size: 0.00 MiB

I read about the Bug #114770 in nautilus-cd-burner (Ubuntu Feisty), which goes around mounting/unmounting media. Is there any correlation to my problem?

On a windows-box exactly this empty media is reported as:

Current Profile: CD-R

Disc Information:

Status: Empty

Erasable: No

Free Sectors: 359'845

Free Space: 736'962'560 bytes

Free Time: 79:59:70 (MM:SS:FF)

Supported Write Speeds: 8x; 16x; 24x; 32x

ATIP Information:

Start Time of LeadIn (MID): 97m24s01f

Last Possible Start Time of LeadOut: 79m59s72f

Ah - i didn't upgrade to Feisty Fawn, it's a native setup on an AMD CPU something with 900MHz and 512 MB RAM.

thx for help
  Ice

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Cody Ramaker (cody-ramaker-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Perhaps if you gave a different program, such as k3b, a shot and see if you have any problems then.

You can get k3b from synaptic or by typing "sudo apt-get install k3b" at the command console.

It's probably the best program out there for CD burning, and it's interface is very intuitive. Hope this helps!

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ice.polar (ice-polar) said : 		#2

K3b solved tge Probs. That's ok. But why; What's wrong with the nautilus-cd-burner?