On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, 19:38 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, King Beowulf wrote: > > > > > 1. as started, you do NOT mount the optical drive to burn. It is not a > > > mass storage device in this case. > > > > Ed, > > > > I've never mounted the optical drive; I've used xcdroast but now it has > > library issues and won't work. When k3b told me the optical drive is read > > only I thought it was because the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab set it ro. > > > > > 2. you MUST use burner s/w since the optical drive needs to be put into > > > burn mode - laser from "read" to "write" power etc. > > > 3. If you log in as 'root' you can simply > > > > Neither xcdroast nor k3b finds the drive writable when invoked by root, > > either. > > > > Maybe it is the media you put in the drive. You did put dvd-r media in the > drive, right? >
And further than that empty non written on dvd-r media. Bill
