Not acknowledging Blank DVDs[Solved]

[inktitan]

I have looked around a bit and found there exist a mounting bug that prevents certain media from being mounted. In my case the media is not detected at all. I am using Maxwell blank DVD-Rs. I had to use Windows to burn Mint Debian to the DVD and it ran fine on my PC. I still prefer the XFCE so that is what I have now. The problem is when I go to burn anything to the DVD it is not recognized by anything on my computer as even being int the drive. Disk utility tells me no media present. Brasero and XFburn say the same. Is there a codec I am missing? Or is blank Maxwell a nogo for Linux? I should note that these same DVDs worked for me under XP on this same machine. I can play DVDs just fine and The Debian disk mounts automatically when I put it in the drive and it was burned to the same Maxwell blanks.

[oobetimer]

How about K3b ?

sudo apt-get install k3b

[inktitan]

Is there a way I can get the without all the Kbaggage? My system becomes real buggy when i introduce some of those KDE elements

[grey1960envoy]

what are you using presently for burning?Brasero?

[Old Ruler]

It might be worth updating the firmware in the DVD drive, especially if you've had it a while and the disks are new stock. It may not recognise the media type. If that fixes the Linux problem, then I guess the Windows XP software you used was able to work around it.

Also; a blank DVD (or CD) can not be mounted. There has to be a filesystem in place and a blank has none.

[inktitan]

what are you using presently for burning?Brasero?

Yes, I prefer Brasero but I had tried XFburn.

It might be worth updating the firmware in the DVD drive, especially if you've had it a while and the disks are new stock. It may not recognise the media type. If that fixes the Linux problem, then I guess the Windows XP software you used was able to work around it.

Also; a blank DVD (or CD) can not be mounted. There has to be a filesystem in place and a blank has none.

What are the risks of doing a firmware update? I will look up the process.

[Old Ruler]

What are the risks of doing a firmware update? I will look up the process.

Pretty risk free these days, I would think. Except for the obvious risk of having to use Windows to do it.

Make sure you get the right file for your make/model and about all that can go wrong is a power failure during the write. But please don't blame me if it breaks.

[inktitan]

CDRWDVD TS-H493A
This is my device and according to dell it does not support dvd-r/dvd+r. So either Windows is magic or I was mistaken. Its been a while so I lean towards the latter. Will a firmware update allow me to support the dvd-r/+r functions? I'm not finding much for my particular device.

[tdockery97]

Try installing K3b using Mint Software Manager instead of apt-get or package manager. Mint Software Manager installs only what K3b needs to run, and not Akonaditray and all those other KDE apps.

[inktitan]

Try installing K3b using Mint Software Manager instead of apt-get or package manager. Mint Software Manager installs only what K3b needs to run, and not Akonaditray and all those other KDE apps.

Thanks but I have discovered the issue to be hardware. So I will have to buy a new DVD drive Alas my sister lets me use her Vista box Which I finally convinced her was not as good as Linux so now she wants M$W7

[oobetimer]

An another choice is to use ImgBurn via wine ..

http://www.imgburn.com/

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ImgBurn supports all the Microsoft Windows OS's - Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 (including all the 64-bit versions). If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes.

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