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EDIT: By some divine intervention, the computer just started recognizing my blank CDs, I have no idea why it just started working, but it did!
Hi all, got a new laptop recently (Dell Vostro 1320) but burning programs don't let me choose a "destination drive", as if one doesn't exist. However, if I insert an acutal DVD, vlc-player will run it just fine. If I insert a blank disk, under gnome's "places" an option for Blank CD shows up, but when I click it, nothing seems to happen. How can I make burning programs recognize the existence of my drive? perhaps its not pointed in the right direction? I have brasero and graveman.
Here is my policy file for HAL
<config version="0.1">
<match user="tom">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</config>
I also have my CD/DVD lines commented out in /etc/fstab
#/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
NOTE: I've tried playing around with fstab, commenting, uncommenting, but to no level of success. Please let me know if you need me to post more outputs.
I will try to post some more information about my burning program preferences.
Thanks for your help, and hopefully, it can be resolved!
Last edited by mongoose088 (2009-08-13 00:04:42)
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fstab wont help you at all - that's for reading, not writing.
I know zip about brasero et al, but cdrecord/wodim should be ok to use.
Most probably, your cd will be /dev/sr0 and to burn an iso-image you do something like this:
cdrecord -v driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/sr0 -dao -eject -data /name/of/iso/imageI hope you realize that cd/dvd-burning is mostly a matter of transferring a whole image, you can't really use it as a 'normal' filesystem (at least as far as writing is concerned).
I guess someone will jump down my throat and tell me it is possible - and it is ... though not in the usual way of using a filesystem ...
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