Graham wrote: detected by locale settings.

in the original post you did do a blanking operation (which should have failed) but if it succeeded will have created a blank unwriteable disk. Do not attempt to format a +R disk...

(blushing) now that I think again about it, the disc which is in the drive right *now* surely is a -R (not +R but it doesn't make any difference as far as formatting, does it?) drive which was formatted, that is made unwriteable as you say, right? So, shame on me for *this* specific disc, I'll trash it and retry as soon as I'm back at that PC a few hours from now. Lesson one: either DVD-R or DVD+R discs must NOT be formatted before burning, OK? Fact is, I came here in despair _after_ I had had some almost identical problems, which unfortunately I failed to write down, with other -R discs which I had not blanked so I am still pretty sure there is not only my own lack of sleep at work here. Which surely is present, I promise I will sleep and try to avoid dumb things like formatting -R discs after I've saved those files...

Otherwise, the last time I came across this kind of issue was with a possibly flakey tape unit sharing the same cable as the the DVD unit.

Inside this box (the motherboard is the one I said in the other message) there are only one sata disc and this burner Not sure if they are connected via the same cable. I believe they aren't because when I assembled it for the owner I remember it had plenty of connectors for just two drives, so it is very likely I put them on separate cables going to separate connectors/controllers on the board. I will check as soon as I get there again. Thanks, Ando -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org