Inserting Burnt CD-R shown that the CD-R is blank.
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Inserting Burnt CD-R shown that the CD-R is blank.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I insert a CD-R and burn a .ogg audio file using Brasero. The burn was successful. But when I insert that CD again, the computer shows the icon of a blank CD-R and asks what to do with it. I tried this with various files, but though the burning was successful every time, upon inserting the CD the computer shows the same icon always. My DVD-RW drive is new and it shows any music CDs that was brought correctly.
The drive operated during the burning phase? Which is to say that you got the impression not just via Brasero that it was actually writing to the drive?
I realize that link is for SUSE, but really it's telling you how to use Brasero.
I'm assuming you've burned CD's and in fact audio CD's successfully using Brasero? Maybe try to convert the OGG to WAV? The OGG file does play on your system? It's not a zero sized file or anything, right?
No such problems as you mention. I have previously tried MP3s using exactly the same procedure as the SuSE documentation. I just cannot view the files that I burnt -- Ubuntu says that I inserted a blank CD. I want to know where are the files?
Sounds like you are wanting to burn files to a disk one at a time.
Did you finalize the disk after burning? Some hardware won't read multisession optical disks.
Burn all 680 MB. of files at once, then finalize the disk.
If you're following the procedure and get a report that the writing was successful, then I see no reason why the same writer drive can't read the disk.
Have you successfully used this drive to write any CD or DVD where it worked, whether this be audio or data?
You say the drive is new, do you know the exact make and model number?
Does Brasero specificaly tell you that the operation succeeded?
Have you ever happened to boot to another OS such as Windows and tried to burn a CD using this same hardware and it worked?
Here are your answers :
1. I tried about thirty times in several months. Only once I was able to read a CD I burnt days ago. But when I tried reading next day, Ubuntu showed that the CD is blank.
2. Model : TSSTcorp TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW SH-216DB (using Disk Utility). Sorry, I don't know the make.
3. At the end of the burning process, Brasero shows a dialog box telling me that the burning succeeded.
4. No, I never tried dual booting.
Please note that I tried burning my CD-Rs several times. Perhaps they were damaged or became multisession CDs, which my drive cannot read.
I also think that I cannot burn MP3 files, since when I tried burning a OGG file once, the burning succeeded without any interruptions, though I cannot read the CD.
The issues here though are that Windows is the supported OS for this drive, there's no declaration about Linux. Doesn't mean Linux doesn't work with it, but the company has not certified that it would. The firmware upgrade is a Windows executable file and their free burner is also a Windows application. Unfortunately at this point it would be worth trying to make sure the DVD firmware is current; likely it is, or is very close by the way, but also to see if one can correctly use the drive to write CD-R via Windows.
I would use a certified (to me) clean disk. I don't know your situation, but I've bought spindles of say 100 or more disks for cheap prices in the past, so there were a lot and they were very inexpensive. Either case, whatever's on the stack of disks are ones which I've never put in a computer before, I don't put them back, or try to reuse them if they failed; I get an entirely new one. However, if they fail, I do set aside the one which failed, get a new one, figure out the how and why the burning did or didn't work, and then consider re-trying with the previously failed one. I would state that failing to me is the writer application saying "Operation failed!", which you aren't seeing.
I also find it very suspect that you once had a disk working and it went from apparently working to not working a few days later. Personally with me, the only way that has ever happened on something like a CD was if I actually did some form of a mistake.
I'm neither here nor there about multi-session disks. I previous tried to create a multi-session audio CD, it worked and later I tried to rewrite it to add more songs and the writing would not work, but the CD still worked. After that I pretty much burned any CD as new (1) because the CDs were very cheap and (2) it was easier. For instance I have a CD with MP3's on it which works in my car, a CD with MP3's on it will fit WAY more music than an audio CD, so I like that. All my MP3's are just in a directory, and I copy ones which I want to somewhere else to ensure they'll still fit within a CD and then burn a new CD rather than try to create a new one. I however do not change the settings for multi-session vs not, I don't in fact pay attention to it, I could be creating multi-session disks just by default.
I would specify slower write speed than the allowable maximum. It used to be that you absolutely had to stay at 1X to write disks, maybe try that.
Thank you very much for your kind help. I will try using a new CD-R next. I am just curious to know what should I do if I again see a dialog with this message :
"Please eject the disc from "TSSTcorp DVD+-RW SH-216DB" manually.
The disc could not be ejected though it needs to be removed for the current operation to continue."
And how much time did the "Creating Image Checksum" phase take normally?
Thank you very much for your kind help. I will try using a new CD-R next. I am just curious to know what should I do if I again see a dialog with this message :
"Please eject the disc from "TSSTcorp DVD+-RW SH-216DB" manually.
The disc could not be ejected though it needs to be removed for the current operation to continue."
And how much time did the "Creating Image Checksum" phase take normally?
Sometimes a distribution has difficulty ejecting a disk and it will ask the user to then do this manually. If this dialog comes up once after it has reached 100% then maybe not a problem. If the dialog comes up and then asks you to re-insert the disk, then something's wrong, it should only need the disk in there once to complete a burn operation. Computing checksum can take a few seconds, it could take maybe as long as a minute; I think that depends on the amount of files being placed on the CD, but not totally sure. If it just stays there forever, greater than 10 minutes or so, then again I'd think there's a problem.
Some suggestions are to look for a different CD burner software and see if that works better, or to try and burn just a single audio file to one CD and see if that works correctly. I know that some of the popular alternatives to Brasero are K3B, and Nero; although I think Nero costs $.
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