On 2016-07-03 10:38, tech@reachthetribes.org wrote:
On 07/03/2016 01:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Suggestion: Tell your mail program (Thunderbird?) what your name is. Or how do you want to be called, so that it writes the From as: Somebody <mail@someplace.com> That way, the first line above will be changed to something like: "On 2016-07-03 10:38, somebody wrote:" Advantages? We know how to address you, your address is not written that often to the web archive for spammers to collect...
Ah, you are waiting for a popup to happen. Why not simply start the burner, and see what it says about the blank?
It would be then a different kind of problem.
Ok, I put the blank dvd in the drive in kde while running 42.1. No read on the drive as far as the popup is concerned. Running fdisk -l doesn't give anything either.
It never will. It is not formatted, it is blank. Totally blank.
So I started K3B, and nothing pops up.
Correct.
So in K3B I went to the device menu and clicked "Media Info", and here are the results:
Type: DVD-R Sequential Media ID: CMC MAG. AM3 Capacity: 510:38:38 min (4.4 GiB) Rewritable: no Appendable: no Empty: yes Layers: 1 Sessions: 0 Supported writing speeds: 6.0x (8310 KB/s) 8.0x (11080 KB/s) 12.0x (16620 KB/s) 16.0x (22160 KB/s)
Well, it is correct. You can write to it, it is empty. Why didn't you try to burn to it?
I know the blank dvd is not damaged, because one that I was just using did the same thing yesterday, but I really needed to burn something. So I booted into 13.2 and burned the dvd that I needed, then booted back into 42.1. Even though it says it is not rewritable, I know that it is because it will say the opposite if I load it up in 13.2
A DVD-R is NOT re-writeable. It is writeable. There is a difference.
Given that I am seeing the exact same effects on 2 different computers with completely different hardware, I am thinking that somebody out there has to have already experienced the same thing. But there aren't even any bugs that I could find on bugzilla for this same problem. How often do people burn cds and dvds nowadays anyways?
I see no bug. Only that you do not get a popup. Have you yet replaced wodim with cdrecord tools, as suggested? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)