I have Fedora v16-64 and found that the OS will not recognize blank CD-R disks but it will recognize DVD-R blanks. Any ideas?

tyc

What kind of drive do you have, and have you tried loading a program like K3B to see if any programs can see it?

The CD drive is the one which came with the HP laptop, a G71 series unit.

As for K3B, I've been using it since before Fedora v14. Used it with Fedora v15 but now with v16, no go. As was noted DVD-R blanks work fine but not CD-R's. Just don't understand it.

Thanks for getting back. It's appreciated.

tyc

Hmmm. May possibly be mis-recognized. Have you by chance tried any other distros after that?

This is odd. The only times I've experienced this, it's been because the blank media was defective.

How about booting to a Live CD of something or other different from Fedora and seeing whether the problem occurs?

If it doesn't, that would narrow it to a Fedora issue. If it does, it might be something to do with the hardware.

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+1 to that. I have never experienced this exact issue before in the past. I had something similar, but like Frankbell said, it was due to the actual media itself.

The CD-R blanks came in a pack of fifty (50) and I've tried close to half a dozen of them so far, with zero results. With one out of fifty defective, that I can believe but not five or six in a row. Suspecision has it that it's something else.

As for trying a live CD, I may have one laying around. d/l it by accident and don't think I ever threw it out. Will have to give that a try.

As for being a "hardware issue", at this point I'm not convinced of that ... but then again ...

Again thanks for getting back. It's appreciated.

tyc

I have burned hundreds of CDs and DVDs over the past six years and commonly buy them in packs of 50 or 100. I tend to agree with this statement. The occasional bad blank in a pack of 50 is normal (and not worth pitching a fuss about, considering how much the price has come down). Five or six is unlikely, but the factory could have been having a bad day. It might we worth while to test one of the ones that didn't work in another computer, if you haven't already done so.