[SOLVED] Strange phenomena with Blank Discs; device won't mount
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Strange phenomena with Blank Discs; device won't mount
Hello LQ.
I am running Ubuntu Karmic and am using Brasero Disc Burner. I am attempting (shouldn't this be easy? It was before I re-installed.) to burn a Sabayon disc image to a DVD-RW that I blanked with Brasero.
When I put in a disc with content, there seems to be no problem; business as usual. But after I blank the DVD-RW, the device doesn't mount (I think) and doesn't show up in Brasero or nautilus or anywahere, for that matter.
I have attached 3 Screenshots detailing and depicting my problem.
The far left screenshot displays what happens when I try to do something with the said blank disc, the middle one displays what happens when a disc with content is inserted into the disc drive, and the far right shows the output of the commands "dmesg | tail," and "mount," with the left Terminal showing the output when a disc WITH content is inserted, and the right Terminal shows the output of those two when a BLANK disk is put in.
If you want me to post any additional information, or would rather me explain in text what those screenshots show, don't hesitate.
It appears I may need to (format?) the disc but how would I do that when It won't recognize the presence of one at all?!
This seems like a stupid, trivial question, but I can't figure it out!
Here's an interesting screenshot in Disk Utility. Like, WTF?
How is "No Media Detected" possible when Media is detected?!
Yeah I have an invisible friend, can't you see? (intended sarcasm)
Now I am confused.
Sorry for the triple-post, my apologies. Couldn't add an attachment in the last one.
Last edited by lupusarcanus; 03-07-2010 at 02:20 AM.
Well, I got it formatted. I feel pretty stupid for not being able to figure out that I needed a better disc burning program.
But now I suffer from essentially the same problem. I still can't actually write anything to the disc. See Screenshot
- Re-writable media? Under what format the dvd-rw was lately formatted? This could affect the readability of a dvd.
- RW media (dvd or cd) have limits at how many times they are re-written, check if you have not already expired its usability.
- Your last image posted tells that something is wrong with either the media or the file system it was formatted into.
The only time you "format" a CD or DVD is when you plan on doing some UDF packet-writing to it, i.e. using it kinda like a floppy disk that you can read and write to.
The rest of the time, you don't actually "format" it; you (or your software) may BLANK the disk, before burning something to it (such as a ISO image of a Linux OS) but then you just go ahead and burn the ISO to it; there's no formatting involved prior to burning.
I use the command-line when burning or formatting discs, so I cannot speak to how well (or not) your burning application is working or how well (or not) it is detecting blank media, but whether it automatically detects a freshly inserted blank media or not, should hopefully not affect whether or not it will burn an image to said blank media.
Once you set up the burning program and click GO, it should ask you to insert a blank media, at which point it should hopefully proceed to burn something to it (or tell you the media is not blank, maybe).
The only time you "format" a CD or DVD is when you plan on doing some UDF packet-writing to it, i.e. using it kinda like a floppy disk that you can read and write to.
The rest of the time, you don't actually "format" it; you (or your software) may BLANK the disk, before burning something to it (such as a ISO image of a Linux OS) but then you just go ahead and burn the ISO to it; there's no formatting involved prior to burning.
I use the command-line when burning or formatting discs, so I cannot speak to how well (or not) your burning application is working or how well (or not) it is detecting blank media, but whether it automatically detects a freshly inserted blank media or not, should hopefully not affect whether or not it will burn an image to said blank media.
Once you set up the burning program and click GO, it should ask you to insert a blank media, at which point it should hopefully proceed to burn something to it (or tell you the media is not blank, maybe).
Hope this helps a bit..
Sasha
Thanks!
Brasero Disc Burner doesn't recognize the disc; and K3B gets an error when I try to burn something. The CLI seemed to get the job done, with one user error (see below).
Although I have never used the command line for burning CD/DVD's, I searched on Googe a bit and found a nice article on using the command line towards the bottom of the page.
I used this command:
Anyways, I got it to burn with only one small problem. It burned the .iso to the disc! So when I put the disc in the disc has the .iso file shows up instead of whatever files should be there.
So how do I So I guess my question is how to make it burn the .iso image to the disc rather than just moving to the disc?
Thanks GrapefruiTgirl!
Last edited by lupusarcanus; 01-03-2010 at 08:16 PM.
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