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Bug 774397 - Can't burn ISO to CD
Can't burn ISO to CD
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-disk-utility
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-disk-utility-maint
gnome-disk-utility-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-11-14 10:05 UTC by Evan Langlois
Modified: 2018-05-24 10:36 UTC
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Description Evan Langlois 2016-11-14 10:05:02 UTC 
Disk utility says that /dev/sr0 is read-only and it shows a 2K capacity for a blank audio CD.    However, brasero opens it just fine and writes to the same disk.  Its not a permission issue - not sure what the deal is!
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2017-06-06 04:53:21 UTC 
There's no support for writing any optical media in gnome-disk-utility...
Comment 2 Kai Lüke 2017-06-26 21:05:46 UTC 
There are so many different CD/DVD/BD subvariants, so Brasero is a good place, I think!
Read-only access for saving CDs is because then no authentification is needed. I'm not very familiar with writing, so if it's very simple and reliable, ok to add that stuff - but if it differs from the other image writing behavior, it's out of scope.
Comment 3 Kai Lüke 2017-06-26 21:10:07 UTC 
I've linked the idea of erasing CD-RWs, I'm not sure if it's still relevant: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160266
Comment 4 Evan Langlois 2017-06-27 09:11:58 UTC 
Sure, "Disk Image Writer" doesn't actually write disks.  Just give us a cryptic error message and let the user figure it out.

And people wonder why Linux isn't user friendly!  At least tell the user what's going on.  I would think the two tools would be integrated.  The idea that a "disk image writer" can't write to a CD sounds silly.  It certainly doesn't sound "Out of scope".  I'm not asking it to build an ISO or play an audio CD, just write the image ... like it says on the tin!
Comment 5 Kai Lüke 2017-06-27 10:36:20 UTC 
:) Yes, that's why I said it we need to know how simple writing is possible (one condition might be the write authentification as already stated, but I simply don't rightknow how this is done by e.g. Brasero). Still, it would miss the verification step. A simple solution would be spawning brasero with --immediately -i imagefile -device=
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 10:36:23 UTC 
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