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beepressure

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 80

blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

I can insert a DVD or CD with data on it, But when I put in a cd/dvd with nothing on it none of my burning applications detect that its in there. Also, nothing in thunar is shown about it. I have not been able to find anything on the forums about this.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

Afaik its normal for Thunar not to show blank media. BTW which burning applications did you try?

beepressure

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 80

Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

only brasero so far. Gonna try XFburn next

well XFburn did work but seg faulted after i burnt an iso file

Last edited by beepressure (2009-11-09 19:56:36)

pichulines

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-06-26

Posts: 22

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Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

same happens to me, after having some problems to start brasero: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84244

this is the output of dmesg. I guess it shouldn't be an error as I inserted a blank CD:

 
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] ASC=0x21 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0

Recently brasero has been updated, I don't know if it has to do with this issue. Now I'm using brasero-lite package from AUR but with not success. I'll try XFburn...

Last edited by pichulines (2009-11-11 14:28:23)

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

You may want to give cdrtools (the one from aur) a try.

My guess is that you have cdrkit installed and for some people it doesn't seem to work very well.

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redbit

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 57

Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

I had the same Problems with Brasero. However gnome-baker works flawlessly if I mount the disc in pcmanfm before burning.

Last edited by redbit (2009-11-10 15:57:29)

SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 157

Re: blank cdr and dvdr not being "detected"

I had the same problem with Brasero after doing an Syu a few days ago, I found the 2.28 versions weren't detecting my blank media and so I went back to a 2.26 version that I previously had and now it works again.  I wasn't able to find anything on the new version that changed that had made the issue so for now I'll just stick with the older version.