GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324252
n-c-b don't recognize blank or rewriteable media
Last modified: 2006-03-22 20:34:46 UTC
Various people have reported in the redhat bugzilla that n-c-b has problems detecting that there is a blank or rewritable disk in the drive. When writing n-c-b keeps asking for a blank cd even when one is inserted. Bug references: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163799 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164747 This seems to happen both in fc4 (gnome 2.10) and rawhide (2.12, although moving to 2.13 now).
Thanks for the report Alex. This could be a combination of: 317529 323377 322782 Or something else. The above bugs are all fixed in HEAD and the gnome-2-12 branch (but not in 2.12.2)
The same for http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21278
I'm seeing the same problem in Fedora rawhide with nautilus-cd-burner-2.13.3-1 What else would you like to know?
Please attach the output of list_cddrives (available in the n-c-b sources) with the media in the drive but unmounted. Also attach the output of lshal for the same. Thanks.
(In reply to comment #3) > I'm seeing the same problem in Fedora rawhide with nautilus-cd-burner-2.13.3-1 > > What else would you like to know? Has HAL mounted the CD?
But 327461 should solve many problems when HAL is competing for access to the drive.
Sorry, meant to say: bug #327461.
I've fixed bug #327461. Can you please try HAL and n-c-b from CVS HEAD and see if this works better now? Thanks.
I'm having the same problem. When I try to write to a CD-R that I know is blank, I immediately get a window asking my to please put a blnk cd-r/cd-rw with at least # Mib of free space. This happens even if I boot with haldaemon disabled. From dmesg: hdd: LG CD-RW CED-8120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive This is under Fedora Core 4 (n-c-b 2.10) Also occurs under Ubuntu Breezy 5.10. But it works just fine under CentOS 4.2. (n-c-b 2.8).
Daniel, Rodd, Bill, Steve, is this still a problem? If it is, could you try to follow the advice in comment #4 ? Thanks!
It worked OK with 2.13.91 + a patch to use gnome-umount instead of umount to unmount the device. I presume it should work ok in 2.13.92 which has that patch upstreamed.
Marking fixed per last comment.