On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 03 January 2009 21:21:55 Lanny Marcus wrote: <snip> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I >> cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran into >> that last night. Went to M$ Windows and I was able to erase the 2 >> CD-RW media, without any problem. Then, I tried to burn the files >> (which are M$ Windows files) to the CD-RW media. No go and I wasted >> about 20-30 minutes, while it was in a loop or stalled on M$ Windows. >> Then, I went back to CentOS and I was able to burn the files, without >> any problems. :-) Not sure what is causing the issues. Nothing >> grave, such as borked your box recently. >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I could think of, and eventually > thought it must be impossible. Then a couple of days ago I desperately needed > a CD, and I'd run out of blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where > I hadn't used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle > of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need to erase the CD-RW as k3b > could do it on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to burn the iso. > It asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use it. I got a clean, verified > burn, and used the CD-RW to do an install! > Anne: Cool. Thanks. I will try that, the next time I use a CD-RW that has previously been used. I tried "Tools > Erase CD-RW" and it got stuck. Maybe it will just work, if I let it erase the media automatically, without me asking.... Lanny