[Indy452]

Since my efforts at the Ubuntu forums came up null I have decided to branch out with this little issue with my external dinosaur of a cd burner.
I'm linking the thread and you can read it yourself but I can say its not the burner because I just used it to burn two ISO's over the weekend on our w/xp machine upstairs.

I would just preffer to have it here on my Ubuntu 7.1 machine. This is the ONLY flaw so far I have with ubuntu is this cd burner problem that says there is no cd in the burner when there is.

Does anyone over here have any clues? I think its something in the OS but I'm not absolutelly positive.

Check this thread out...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700012

Thanks, Neal

[vicks]

Originally Posted by Indy452

Since my efforts at the Ubuntu forums came up null I have decided to branch out with this little issue with my external dinosaur of a cd burner.
I'm linking the thread and you can read it yourself but I can say its not the burner because I just used it to burn two ISO's over the weekend on our w/xp machine upstairs.

I would just preffer to have it here on my Ubuntu 7.1 machine. This is the ONLY flaw so far I have with ubuntu is this cd burner problem that says there is no cd in the burner when there is.

Does anyone over here have any clues? I think its something in the OS but I'm not absolutelly positive.

Check this thread out...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700012

Thanks, Neal

Our computer burner does not recognize some brands of cds. Suggest you try a different brand and see if that works. Ours will only recognize Memorex disks.
vicks

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by Indy452

Since my efforts at the Ubuntu forums came up null I have decided to branch out with this little issue with my external dinosaur of a cd burner.
I'm linking the thread and you can read it yourself but I can say its not the burner because I just used it to burn two ISO's over the weekend on our w/xp machine upstairs.

I would just preffer to have it here on my Ubuntu 7.1 machine. This is the ONLY flaw so far I have with ubuntu is this cd burner problem that says there is no cd in the burner when there is.

Does anyone over here have any clues? I think its something in the OS but I'm not absolutelly positive.

Check this thread out...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700012

Thanks, Neal

That slow burn speed might mean something if you have 64MB RAM or a 223MHz processor, but I always leave mine set to auto for burn speed and do not have many failures. I can think of one failure and who is to say that out of the last couple hundred there wasn't a bad disc and would have the same result regardless of the speed I burnt it at.

Does this PC not have a burner?

If it does, why not just use that? If you start getting a lot of failures burning, well.... cross that bridge when you get to it. Which you may never do.

[Indy452]

No, its not a disc issue, I've tried multiple discs (all new) with no success.

Its an external burner because my computer does not have one built in.

When I use it with windows I have no problems whatsoever but I don't really like windows so I prefer to use Ubuntu.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by Indy452

No, its not a disc issue, I've tried multiple discs (all new) with no success.

Its an external burner because my computer does not have one built in.

When I use it with windows I have no problems whatsoever but I don't really like windows so I prefer to use Ubuntu.

Have you tried not leaving it connected. Only connect when needed? Vice versa?
On my PC, when I used to use XP, if I used a usb port for something, nothing else would get recognized at that port except the same device again, until I rebooted.

What kind of results do you get if you search "external usb" in your package manager?
Maybe there is something that needs to be installed that is not getting installed by default.

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Indy452,

If you issue the command (from a Terminal window):
$ which cdrecord
and the cdrecord command is not found, you can then issue:
$ sudo apt-get update
Note: you may have to run it twice if error messages occur at the end of the listing.

Then you can bring up the Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) via System>Administration>SPM
Issue a Search for cdrecord, and then select it to be installed then click on Apply to install it.

If you accomplish that, then you can state your progress here and I'll list the cdrecord commands you can run to burn, and create an ISO image file, and also how to erase a CD, and how to specify the cd drive device in the commands.

If you don't want to wait, you can Search the Unix/Linux forum for all of the messages posted by me (lotuseclat79) that have the keyword "cdrecord" w/o quotes using the Advanced Search window.

-- Tom