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Re: Debian don't detect blank (empty) DVDs



Markos wrote:
> My Debian Squeeze can read burned DVDs but doesn't detect blank DVDs, so I
> can't burn iso images.
> Any suggestion?

When I ran into that very same problem the problem was the new media I
bought.  There are only a very few manufacturers of blank media.  Be
that as it may be at least with cd-r disks the laser parameters are
mapped from the media manufacturer through known tables.  If I used
older media that I had that worked previously then everything worked
fine.  But if I tried to use the new media then I couldn't write them.

The only solution I know is to upgrade the dvd writer.  But first you
might try any older media that you still have hanging around.  If
older media works but newer media does not then you likely have the
same problem.

If there was a way to upgrade the firmware of your dvd writer that
would probably improve the situation too.

Bob

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