Re: [Hampshire] DVD/CDROM problems with Ubuntu Feisty

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Author: Adam Cripps
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] DVD/CDROM problems with Ubuntu Feisty
On 5/9/07, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007 10:21:38 +0100
> "Adam Cripps" <kabads@???> wrote:
>
> > When trying to burn on the command line with growisofs I got:
> > "media is not recognized as recordable DVD"
>
> I use the command line CD writing package wodim under debian as
> root like this:
>
> benden:~# wodim -v dev=/dev/cdrom speed=4 ./dyne-2.4.2.iso
>


Thanks John - but wodim does not play nicely either:

wodim -v dev=/dev/cdrom0 speed=4 tobackup.iso
produces lengthy output with this at the end:
wodim: No disk / Wrong disk!

I'm guessing this is a hardware error or driver missing.

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