On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > 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. I write to RW media all the time without formatting it. I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing. After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------