On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: > 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. That's what I found. If you find it works the same way as I saw, we should file a bug report. > Maybe it will just work, if I let it erase the media > automatically, without me asking.... If you have a spare disk you might do a test burn, while it's on your mind? Let us know what happens. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090104/8f9277bf/attachment-0005.sig>