k3b won't write CDs

[Larry Howe]

On Friday 26 November 2004 04:54, Nick THOMPSON wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a DVD re-writer which can write CD-R/W's as well, k3b even says
> that it can in its device summary. However, although k3b will erase and
> write DVD-R/W's, it won't let me erase CD-R/W's (not sure about writing
> as all my CD-R/W are full!). I've tried several versions with no luck,
> am I missing some other tool(s) maybe.
>
> This is all on a fully up-to-date FC2 machine. Never had this problem on
> Mandrake. Starting to think I should roll my own KDE or use the RedHat
> packages on the KDE download page.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick.

Seems like a drastic solution to a minor problem. Have you looked in the logs 
to see if there are errors? Does k3b tell you what the problem is? k3b is a 
front end to cdrecord. Try running cdrecord from the command line and see 
what the problem is or, it might even work from there.

Larry
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