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Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

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DVD burner not recognized as recordable

I installed Arch Linux in an old laptop the other day and I just realised that the dvd burner is not recognized as recordable .

$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -r -J /media/disk
:-( /dev/scd0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0

The burner can read DVDs just fine .
How can I troubleshoot this ?

Notes :
1-  '/dev/scd0' is present .
2- The device is supported by Linux . K3B used to burn DVDs when Mepis was installed in the laptop .
3- the name of the device 'HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4244N' .
4 -

$ hdparm /dev/scd0        

/dev/scd0:
 IO_support    =  0 (default) 
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

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English is not my native language .

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: DVD burner not recognized as recordable

I installed Arch Linux in an old laptop the other day and I just realised that the dvd burner is not recognized as recordable .

$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -r -J /media/disk
:-( /dev/scd0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0

The burner can read DVDs just fine .
How can I troubleshoot this ?

it complains about the media not the burner itself. "media is not ..."; try another dvd.

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: DVD burner not recognized as recordable

I installed Arch Linux in an old laptop the other day and I just realised that the dvd burner is not recognized as recordable .

$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -r -J /media/disk
:-( /dev/scd0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0

The burner can read DVDs just fine .
How can I troubleshoot this ?

it complains about the media not the burner itself. "media is not ..."; try another dvd.

I just found out that the device recognizes empty CDs but not DVDs . The same DVD is recognized in my Desktop burner but not in the laptop one .
I'm quite sure the media is fine . I tried different DVDs . I use those everyday and they are trusty (with a Sony brand on them) .

So what could be the reason behind this ?
the device recognizes a CD-R but not a DVD-R .

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English is not my native language .