On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:43:07AM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> wrote: > > Good Day-- > > > > I've been backing up my essential stuff to DVD+R discs for quite a while > > with no trouble at all. > > > > Last week I tried backing up to a DVD+RW with no trouble at all. > > > > This week, when trying to re-write my weekly backup, CD/DVD Creator told > > me it could not write to the disc because it was read-only. Is there a > > bug in CD/DVD Creator or am I doing something incorrectly. Obviously, > > I'd like to be able to reuse discs if I can, but can go back to using > > one-use DVDs if necessary. > > I can't help the OP, but... > > Did you erase the disc? > > 1) I strongly recommend using K3B or some other more robust GUI app > for CD/DVD management. > > 2) That said, I have never been able to erase a rewritable disc with > K3B. It always errors out because it claims the disc is in use (well, > yeah, it's mounted!). The last time this happened (a few days ago), I > extracted the erasure command from K3B's log and created a shell > script to do the job, complete with umount. That works just fine. > (I'm open to K3B suggestions that would be more convenient here - > hint, hint.... :-) My Centos5 box has this problem too, but my older Centos didn't, and and Fedora on my eeepc doesn't. I think it must be a bug in either the version of k3b in use, or one of its subsidiary tools (no clue which). What you need to do is: before letting K3B try to erase the dvd/rw is to manually umount the volume, then k3b will work fine. (as root, type in "mount", figure out which one is the volume in question, then issue a "umount <mountpoint>" still as root.) > > 3) Also, the last time I tried to do a multi-session continuation with > K3B I hit enough snags to give up. Actually, that was when I ran into > the erase problem above, but at least that part is solved. > > HTH > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------