[SOLVED] XfBurn says 'Drive empty' even though it isn't - Linux Mint 17.2
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XfBurn says 'Drive empty' even though it isn't - Linux Mint 17.2
The Issue
I'm trying to burn the Mint ISO to a DVD in order to install it on an old laptop which won't boot from USB. I am using a DVD+R, which I inserted into the burner on my computer. I'm using Xfburn, but it says 'Drive is empty' even though there is a blank DVD in there. What have I tried?
I checked to see whether Mint found the drive alright (I've never used it with this install of Mint)
Obviously I searched the internet and the forums for a solution, but have been unsuccessful. The commands listed above are a result of my search, and seem to narrow down the problem (it's apparently not directly related to Xfburn, but to Mint not recognizing the disc as writeable)
The Question
Is there anything I can do to get Mint to recognize this disc as a writeable medium? Is this a driver-related issue?
Last edited by Delusion of Adequacy; 03-05-2016 at 02:00 PM.
Reason: typo/formatting - edit 2: added screenshot
Yes, it has to be empty for the purpose of writing. Did it write?
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(it's apparently not directly related to Xfburn, but to Mint not recognizing the disc as writeable
Usually it is the Xfburn not correctly seeing the /dev/sr0 device, this also happened to me in K3D, until I configured the target drive correctly. Also there was similar problem when the device permission had issue --in this case you must add the $USER to the Group 19(cdrom) otherwise only the root can write the DVD drive. Try using root if Xfburn writes it, and if that's the case permission is the issue.
Yes, it has to be empty for the purpose of writing. Did it write?
Usually it is the Xfburn not correctly seeing the /dev/sr0 device, this also happened to me in K3D, until I configured the target drive correctly. Also there was similar problem when the device permission had issue --in this case you must add the $USER to the Group 19(cdrom) otherwise only the root can write the DVD drive. Try using root if Xfburn writes it, and if that's the case permission is the issue.
Hope that helps. Good luck. Enjoy.
m.m.
Thanks for your advice. I understand the DVD needs to be empty in order to write to it, and it's brand new out of the box. However, Xfburn doesn't allow me to click on 'Burn Image', (see attachment) so I assume it thinks there is no DVD in the disc burner.
I ran sudo Xfburn from the terminal, but still no luck.
What do you mean by 'configuring the target drive correctly'? Are you talking about some configuration or formatting of the disc itself, or are you talking about some configuration in Xfburn or in some other place on my computer?
The drive reports by SCSI command GET CONFIGURATION that profile 0x00
is the current profile. A MMC profile is a set of capabilities, in most
cases directly related to the recognized media type. E.g. 0x1b would
indicate that a DVD+R is recognized and that normal DVD+R operations are
now offered by the drive.
0x00 means that no capabilities are offered. I.e. the drive does not
recognize the medium.
In the further part of the answer to GET CONFIGURATION it announces
that it would support these media profiles
So try another medium brand (e.g. switch from Verbatim to no-Verbatim or
vice versa) or medium type (.e. DVD-R instead of DDV+R).
Try whether the drive recognized already recorded media.
If the drive stubbornly says
Code:
Media current: is not recognizable
Media status : is not present
then you need a new drive. (DVD burners have become really cheap.)
Hi, your attached thumbnail shows that the system sees the drive correctly. Only that, it is not capable of reading the disk (for what reason we do not know). Thus, as *scdbackup* said test feed the drive with other "brand" other "kind/type" of media and see if you can have it read.
Best way if I am in that case, buy other brands of CD/DVD disks, burn the iso into it and test one after another until the Optiarc reader device reads. Or lastly, you may try another CD/DVD Reader (this one is cheap today).
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