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. Otherwise, I can't think of another use case where one would format an unused drive, but there may be one. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6