[ale] Can not burn DVD+R/RW

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 12:01:27 EDT 2009


You might want to move to cdrkit[1]. I am surprised cdrtools is even
installed. The author of cdrtools basically told the community to talk
a long walk off a short cliff a couple of years ago.

[1] --http://www.cdrkit.org/

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Chris Fowler<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded a CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 and I can no longer burn + media.
>
> Here is a message in cdrecord
>
> cdrecord: Found DVD+ media but DVD+R/DVD+RW support code is missing.
> cdrecord: If you need DVD+R/DVD+RW support, ask the Author for
> cdrecord-ProDVD.
> cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/
> cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found
> on this target.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd).
>
>
> The burn will happen and the DVD looks as if it worked.  When I insert
> the DVD back into a computer it appears blank.
>
> I'm pretty sure I was burning +RW before I did the upgrade.  Am I
> missing a package?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris



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