GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 171486
nautilus-cd-burner asks for a blank disk when one is in the drive
Last modified: 2005-05-19 11:21:45 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."
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.
The same iso is recorded without any problem with windows. Perhaps it's doing some overburning by default, I'll ask to the submitter.
Thanks Sebastien. Perhaps they can also make the iso available online so I can test with it?
no reply on the distibution bugzilla, I'm closing the bug.