<p>Try firing up for cd/dvd burning app and look for a finilize disc option. I've seen this with data CDs before.</p>
<p>Nero (windows) will do it for you, I imagine k3b should too..</p>
<p>--- Sent from my phone, so please disregard any typos. :) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 26, 2011 5:59 PM, "C L" <<a href="mailto:wplug@cmlang.com">wplug@cmlang.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Quoting <a href="mailto:gpitman@gmail.com">gpitman@gmail.com</a>:<br>
> <br>>> Put the disk in and then type "dmesg" in a terminal window. That <br>>> should give you some hint as to where the raw device is ( <br>>> /dev/cdrom or /dev/cd0 or something)<br>
> <br>> Only two lines from the dmesg output seem related to the dvd drive:<br>> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray<br>> scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5<br>
> <br>> Here is my output from scanbus:<br>> scsibus1:<br>> 1,0,0 100) *<br>> 1,1,0 101) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-107D' '1.21' Removable CD-ROM<br>> 1,2,0 102) *<br>
> 1,3,0 103) *<br>> 1,4,0 104) *<br>> 1,5,0 105) *<br>> 1,6,0 106) *<br>> 1,7,0 107) *<br>> <br>> Which by what I researched online seems to indicate that 1,1,0 means <br>
> sr1. So I tried both sr0 and sr1...<br>> <br>>> Then see if you can look at the raw device by typing "head -50 <br>>> /dev/cdrom". If you get a bunch of unreadable garbage, there is <br>>> probably info there.<br>
>><br>> <br>> return from the head command...<br>> head: cannot open `/dev/sr0' for reading: No medium found<br>> <br>> So I take out the dvd and put in a Fedora 13 Installation DVD. Suse <br>> OS automagically mounts and displays the contents of this dvd. I run <br>
> the head command with this dvd in the drive and a bunch of characters <br>> are returned. (As if looking at a binary file in a text editor, as you <br>> say 'unreadable garbage'.<br>> <br>> No unreadable garbage on the photos dvd.<br>
> <br>> -Craig<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> wplug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">wplug@wplug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug">http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug</a><br>
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