[SOLVED] CD burner appears to write to disks, but disk remains blank!!

cmas1148 · 01-13-2011, 04:05 PM

My CD burner seems to be writing to the disks, it gives me a progress bar, you can hear the disk rapidly spin then slow to about half speed, just like it does in Windows when it works. But it doesn't work in Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit?

Please note this is a CD reader/ writer, but it only reads DVDs, not writes.

EDDY1 · 01-13-2011, 05:55 PM

Before exiting there should be an error message, like couldn't open a file, read a file.
Most of what you think is writing is preparation.

cmas1148 · 01-13-2011, 09:47 PM

Sorry i forgot to meantion that, but it gives me the blocks being written like in MagicISO. At the end it does say "There was an error during burning, your disk might be unreadable, only at the end of "writing" to the disk?

EDDY1 · 01-14-2011, 02:01 PM

I wsa getting the error myself because, I was trying to burn a whole partition, which included compressed or zipped files.
You think that is your case?

cmas1148 · 01-14-2011, 08:17 PM

Yup that was it, I was backing up an old 10GB drive and it was attempting to write the free space too! Thanks for your help EDDY1!

EDDY1 · 01-14-2011, 08:49 PM

You're welcome