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Bug 171486 - nautilus-cd-burner asks for a blank disk when one is in the drive
nautilus-cd-burner asks for a blank disk when one is in the drive
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus-cd-burner
Classification: Deprecated
Component: cd-burner
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-24 13:05 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2005-05-19 11:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-03-24 13:05:48 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/8087

"Trying to burn a data DVD on both DVD-R and DVD+R disks, nautilus-cd-burner
refuses to burn, giving an error message that tells me to insert a blank disk
larger than 4.4GB in size. (The DVD-R/+R are 4.7) 
...
name: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG device: /dev/hdd max_speed_read: 48
type: CD Recorder/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/CD Drive/DVD Drive
media type: DVD-R, or DVD-RAM (blank)
media size: 4489.25 MiB
CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 48 id: /dev/hdd
...
-rw-r--r--  1 treed treed 4.5G 2005-03-22 21:58 /tmp/image.iso

I'm pretty sure that it's incorrectly reading the size of the disk though.
Windows had no issues whatsoever writing a comparably sized iso.
...
name: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG device: /dev/hdd max_speed_read: 48
type: CD Recorder/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/CD Drive/DVD Drive
media type: DVD-R, or DVD-RAM (has-data)
media size: 0.00 MiB
CD-Recorder/SCSI devices only: max_speed_write: 48 id: /dev/hdd

That's with the disk I burned under windows in the drive. Seems really odd."
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2005-03-27 16:27:43 UTC
Hardware vendors list media sizes using a decimal (base 10) notation.  For
example, a common DVD disc can hold 4.7GB == 4,700,000,000 bytes.  In binary
(base 2) units this is 4,700,000,000 / 1024 **3 (approx. 4.4 GiB).

I don't really see anything wrong here.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2005-03-27 18:21:59 UTC
The same iso is recorded without any problem with windows. Perhaps it's doing
some overburning by default, I'll ask to the submitter.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2005-03-28 01:40:08 UTC
Thanks Sebastien.  Perhaps they can also make the iso available online so I can
test with it?
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2005-05-19 11:21:45 UTC
no reply on the distibution bugzilla, I'm closing the bug.