Hi Eric, 

understood, sorry ! 

To be sure about the root cause you might boot from a USB key, using, by
example Linux Mint or any other bootable distrib and then try to burn
again a CD. 

I noticed some other regressions with Ubuntu 18.04 and moved to Mint,
more bug free as for my Hw at least.

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Jean-Pierre

On 2018-06-11 17:34, Eric Curtin wrote:

> Hi Jean-Pierre,
> 
> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I successfully upgraded from 16.04
> to 18.04. My disk drive fails to burn discs on either.
> 
> On 11 June 2018 at 16:59, Jean-Pierre Bovee <jpbo...@lilo.org> wrote: 
> 
>> if it comes down to simply upgrading to 18.04, why not making a USB key,
>> next booting from it?
>> 
>> Otherwise there is a nice procedure to upgrade from 16 to 18 somewhere on
>> the web. I tried it successfuly.
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> On 2018-06-11 13:16, Eric Curtin wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Guys,
>> 
>> I have this model of laptop, it can reads from cd drive but you cannot
>> burn disks with it using any disk burning software (xfburn, brasero,
>> etc.) Seems to be a driver bug. Can burn disks using this flavour of
>> xubuntu using any other machine I own.
>> 
>> Also upgraded to 18.04, still fails. Any tips and tricks to get this
>> working? Or just dip straight into the kernel drivers?
>> 
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