Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2008 20:27:15 MHR wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Chris Geldenhuis >> >> <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Bill, >>> >>> Thanks for the quick response - I did try to format with dvd+rw tools but >>> also got a respnse that the media was not recordable. AFAIK it should not >>> be required. >>> >> I usually use K3B for all my CD and DVD recording needs - it works >> nicely, even under GNOME (I don't use KDE). >> >> I've never had a problem like the one you describe, but I've upgraded >> to each new CentOS release fairly quickly, so I'm on 5.2, and that >> might be better. >> >> The one problem I did have with a "new" DVD burner was that it would >> only write at 2.47x at the fastest, and it was supposed to be a 20x >> drive. The manufacturer suggested I RMA it, which I will if I ever >> get around to taking it out and putting in a (different, known good) >> one. >> >> I also have mplayer/mencoder installed (and vobcopy and a few others), >> so I don't know if any of them might be involved peripherally, >> dragging in a more recent module from rpmforge, but I'm thinking you >> could try K3B and not lose anything if it works. >> >> > One question to Chris - did you click on the status bar where you need to > change the disk type? > > Anne > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi Anne, I was using growisofs on the command line - thanks for the response. ChrisG.