I can burn CD/DVDs in k3b and view them in Linux, but when I try read it in Windows it doesn't recognize the fiel system.
These are the k3b settings:
Under File Systems I have checked:
Generate Rock Ridge extensions
Generate Joliet extensions

Under Advanced I have checked:
Allow 103 character Joliet filenames
Allow 31 character iso9660 filenames

Any suggestions?

What do you have for file system and iso level?

File Systems are (on the Filesystem tab):
Generate Rock Ridge extensions
Generate Joliet extensions

ISO level is 2 on the Advanced tab

Are there anyone out there that can help?

What type of data or information is on the CD? Is it music, programs, or what?

And also, can you start k3b from a console, so that the messages and errors and all that will appear in the console. When you burn a CD the way you have, copy the stuff from the console after you burn the CD, and post it so that we can see what command(s) have been sent to the burner? A more specific way would be to do the burning directly from the console, using cdrecord, but if you aren't comfortable with this, then running k3b from the console should do.

In many cases, with data CD's like .ISO images, if they are burned WITHOUT the appropriate -pad flag on the commandline, then they are often readable on the machine that made them, but not on other machines. Something like this may be causing your problem.
Thanks.

I am trying to burn .tiff files. I am in Windows right now so I can't try the command line option, but I can try that later. However, I am not getting any errors when burning and I can read the files in Linux. How can I set the .pad flag? How can I get the command that is used to burn when I am in k3b?

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Perhaps no errors, no, but the messages in the console can be helpful. There may not be any errors, but I am hoping that by looking at the commands being used by k3b, we might be able to see what options it is using, and thereby figure out why the resulting disc works on Linux but not windows. I'm not really sure exactly what command(s) k3b is using to burn the CD's, so again, the console messages may be helpful.

So, to clarify, would it be fair to say you are putting together a bunch of .tiff files, and burning a CD of them? If there's a disc-full of them personally I would use the command line-- that's just my preference, as I have never used k3b or any other front-end.

Here's a sample of the commandline I would use to burn a .ISO to a CD. Using this example, you could make a .ISO file of your .tiff collection (using either mkisofs or growisofs, neither of which I have used much), and burn it to a CD, and it should work fine on any machine or OS:

(root)# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 padsize=63s -pad -dao -v -eject /absolute/path/to/image.iso

I believe the above command could also be adjusted to burn a series of files to a CD in sequence, by specifying the files one after the other, like:

(root)# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 padsize=63s -pad -dao -v -eject file1.tiff file2.tiff file3.tiff

but there's probably something else that would need to be adjusted with the command, such as changing -dao to -tao maybe (this means Track at once instead of Disc at once. I haven't tried it, I generally burn complete discs using the first method.

I have tried with just one .tiff file, and it still didn't work. I have a feeling it has something to do with the File Syste options, or the Advanced tab. Can you tell me what options you have?
I don't really want to burn an iso image, and I don't think I should have to since I remember I was able to get this to work a long time ago.

What options I have? Not sure what you mean. As I said above, I have never used k3b, only the commandline. If you have a CD to spare, maybe a re-writeable one, so you don't waste it, try the following from a root console, and see what happens. Change /dev/hdd to whatever your burner is, and put the correct path to a file.:

cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 padsize=63s -pad -tao -v -eject /path/to/filename.tiff

Note that with an RW CD you may need to blank it first (kinda like formatting) but maybe not.

I ended up removing k3b and installing the latest version (1.0.3) as well as dvd+rw-tools-7.0 since I was getting a warning that I could not create an open session when burning dvds with the current version of growisofs.

I burned a CD, and it appeared to work. I noticed that I now have an option for Windows+Linux file systems.

Interesting.. Glad you seem to have resolved the issue. For future reference, and just for informations sake, check out the console data sometime, when you burn something, by starting k3b from the console. You might learn a thing or two about what k3b actually tells the burner, when making a Linux vs Winhosed disc.

..might come in handy sometime.

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