Is your disk media already written or bad?

When you slam in recordable media k3b should automagically ask you what you would like to do?

Verify it via command line dvdrecord and cdrecord:

References:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-160777.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25212

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> From: jdawgaz@cox.net
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: dvd writer not found
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:53:31 -0700
>
> Yes, I bought a new laptop, and it is a good one too.
> Not a bad price, and has everything working that needed to be working EXCEPT
> one that I would never have thought about: the DVD writer doesn't work.
>
> Details:
>
> installed ubuntu intrepid
>
> intel wifi 5100 works flawlessly
>
> nvidia (with proprietary driver, that I installed) works great.
>
> have some troubles with kde4 konsole (looks like a lot of people are having
> problems with this), so I have regressed to gnome-terminal instead
>
> got nfs working, and new version of gnuplot, and lyx installed, other minor
> programs installed to my needs. all works great.
>
>
> then I was going to write some files to my CD-RW, and the device is not found.
> it is installed as a scsi device, which might be the problem.
> k3b says I can't use it to write, but read is ok (not sure about that part
> yet).
>
> here are details as I know them:
>
> 1. dmesg | grep DVD
>
> [ 4.750131] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L, SR04, max UDMA/133,
> ATAPI AN
> [ 5.115430] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L SR04
> PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>
> 2. lshw
>
> *-cdrom
> description: DVD-RAM writer
> physical id: 1
> bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
> logical name: /dev/cdrom
> logical name: /dev/cdrw
> logical name: /dev/dvd
> logical name: /dev/dvdrw
> logical name: /dev/scd0
> logical name: /dev/sr0
> capabilities: audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
> configuration: status=open
>
>
> I have searched for GSA-T50L and {linux | ubuntu }, and not found anything
> useful.
>
> any ideas?
>
> jerry
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