On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B. If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and writable media for each device.
Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
If you have a rewriteable one. I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.
I write to RW media all the time without formatting it. I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing. After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB.