I've researched this a little on
the archives for this list and Google,
but is there a definitive reason why
certain CD/DVD drives will work for
everything except burning?

My internal drive is a Samsung I think
and does this. But, my external Lite-on
will show the blank disk and allows burning
functions.



Yes, some drives are ROMs or Read Only while others are RW or Read
/Write. I have had one CDRW go bad on me that would not burn a CD but
would read them.
BruceI've researched this a little on
the archives for this list and Google,
but is there a definitive reason why
certain CD/DVD drives will work for
everything except burning?

My internal drive is a Samsung I think
and does this. But, my external Lite-on
will show the blank disk and allows burning
functions.



Yes, some drives are ROMs or Read Only while others are RW or Read
/Write. I have had one CDRW go bad on me that would not burn a CD but
would read them.
BruceI've researched this a little on
the archives for this list and Google,
but is there a definitive reason why
certain CD/DVD drives will work for
everything except burning?

My internal drive is a Samsung I think
and does this. But, my external Lite-on
will show the blank disk and allows burning
functions.



Yes, some drives are ROMs or Read Only while others are RW or Read
/Write. I have had one CDRW go bad on me that would not burn a CD but
would read them.
BruceI've researched this a little on
the archives for this list and Google,
but is there a definitive reason why
certain CD/DVD drives will work for
everything except burning?

My internal drive is a Samsung I think
and does this. But, my external Lite-on
will show the blank disk and allows burning
functions.

Yes, some drives are ROMs or Read Only while others are RW or Read
/Write. I have had one CDRW go bad on me that would not burn a CD but
would read them.
Bruce

I know this is an older post but I too have a samsung dvd/cdrw device
and it will not burn disks with serpentine, which was installed as
default. I had to install gnomebaker, (the package manager got it and
installed it with no problems) Now it will burn everything, even ISO
files (although there is no listing for ISO in the graphic menu, it
sees the ISO and burns it automatically).
I suspect it is a problem with the device and the serpentine, not with
ubuntu. I would notify the distributor of the serpentine software if I
knew how.


As an aside:
I have a dual boot system windows/ubuntu and because of the trouble
with the cd burner, I would download various things with windows and
burn them, and then use them on linux.
I downloaded three different versions of BSD (freebsd, netbsd. and
openbsd) and burned them with windows burners. Each time, the disks
would boot and the partitioner would partition, but when it came time
to install, the system said it could not find the media to install
from on the cd. I used two different burning programs to make the cd's
(six in all) and they all came out the same. I was going to give up
until I got the gnomebake working on my Ubuntu, so I gave it one last
shot. It booted, partitioned and when it came time to install---
---Yes, Yes, Yes,---
It installed without a glitch,(except for the archaic installer system
on the BSD Unix Distro's. They are still living in 1991)
Thanks to swapping out the cd burner I now have a BSD toy on an old
computer and I am a happy man. If you have not figured out the problem
yet, try another burner software. Samsung doesn't seem to like anybody.

My Samsung still won't burn on one machine, but the
burner on my dual-boot Ubuntu Studio machine is showing as a Sony, and
does burn under Gnomebaker (but still not under Brasero).

Now if I could just get my Belkin USB wireless to work. None of the
online solutions work for my model, and have seen where others had the
same problem, so I'll chalk it up to not-yet-supported hardware.

Don't know if this is the best or even better but it has always worked for
me. A couple of friends of mine that I consider Linux/Ubuntu GURUs
recommended it to me, that is K3B.

And yes I have burned Ubuntu ISOs with it.

Last night I installed a Belkin F5d7050 version 4001 on Ubuntu 8.04.
Didn't need to install any drivers, justed configured to match my
wireless router that it communicates with. From what I have heard, the
earlier versions, 1000, 2000 and 3000, you need 'ndiswrapper' to
install the windows driver. But version 4000 works out of the box.

Now if I could just get my Belkin USB wireless to work. None of the
online solutions work for my model, and have seen where others had the
same problem, so I'll chalk it up to not-yet-supported hardware.