[lug] Fedora 1 laptop can't read DVD+RW

[Andrew F. Gilmore]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 09:28 -0700, Michael Deck wrote:
> I've got an Inspiron 4000 laptop running Fedora Core 1. This is kernel 
> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl. My dmesg shows
> 
> hdc: LG DVD-ROM DRN-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> I can slide a CDROM into the drive and it automounts and reads fine. But 
> when I replace it with a DVD+RW that I made myself, containing just files 
> -- not interested in video playing -- and try to mount it, it says "no 
> medium found". The relevant line in /etc/fstab is
> 
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> where /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc
> 
> Can anyone help me out with this? Are there drivers or other programs that 
> I need here?
> 

Mike, I think the issue might be the DVD-RW/DVD+RW format conflicts? I'm
not sure, but it is at least possible that the +RW format is not
readable in a -RW drive?

Andrew