FC6 Can not burn CDs/DVDs worked in FC5

[bassdeal]

I went from FC5 to FC6 and I lost my ability to burn CDs/DVDs. I have one internal CD-RW and one external USB CD/DVD-RW (plus an internal CD/DVD-R). FC6 reconizes all the drives and can read CDs from them but when I try to write a CD it states the CDs do not have any free space on them even though they are brand new. I tried this using CD-Rs and CD-RWs. I could burn CDs from both CD writers with FC5 (never burned a DVD).

My FC5 install was a "workstation" install where my FC6 is a "server" install with additonal user interface stuff (X-11, gmone). Is there something I am missing that needs to be installed? FC6 does reconize the devices as writers.

Thanks!

[paul matthijsse]

can be a software question: what do you use to (try to) burn cd's? sometimes my k3b is complaining about incomprehensible things like libs and codecs and then i start gnomebaker and it suddenly works, and vice versa...

[bassdeal]

I have been using CD/DVD Creator. I just load the empty writable CD in the drive, CD/DVD Creator Folder window pops up, I move my files I want to burn into the folder (about 3.5 MB worth), then click "Write to Disk". In the "Write to Disk" configuration window I leave all the defaults except set the write speed to 2.0X. I then click "Wriite" and within a second get an error dialog box stating "Insert a writable or blank disk" then "Please put a disc, with at least 3.5 MiB free, into the drive. The following disc types are supported: CD-R, CD-RW". I have tried both CD-R and CD-RW disks fresh out of the packages. The CD-RW are 4x write disks but I am not sure what the CD-R's are. All of this worked fine with FC5. Any ideas? Thanks!

[paul matthijsse]

i suggest to try another burning program, type for example (as su) "yum install gnomebaker" (or k3b or graveman) and see what happens...

[gavinw6662]

did you do an 'upgrade' when you went from FC5 to FC6?

I only ask because on my lappy - (using FC5) somewhere along the lines some update borked my ability to watch dual layer DVD's. After going nuts for a long time - I removed my .kde dir and it suddenly worked for me. Strange eh?

[sultanoswing]

There was some fix somewhere (which worked for me, BTW), involving changing ther permissions of your cdrom...but I can't for the life of me remember what it was, or where I found it sorry!