On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net>
wrote:> Good Day--
>
> I've been backing up my essential stuff to DVD+R discs for quite a
while
> with no trouble at all.
>
> Last week I tried backing up to a DVD+RW with no trouble at all.
>
> This week, when trying to re-write my weekly backup, CD/DVD Creator told
> me it could not write to the disc because it was read-only. ?Is there a
> bug in CD/DVD Creator or am I doing something incorrectly. ?Obviously,
> I'd like to be able to reuse discs if I can, but can go back to using
> one-use DVDs if necessary.
>
Did you erase the disc?
1) I strongly recommend using K3B or some other more robust GUI app
for CD/DVD management.
2) That said, I have never been able to erase a rewritable disc with
K3B. It always errors out because it claims the disc is in use (well,
yeah, it's mounted!). The last time this happened (a few days ago), I
extracted the erasure command from K3B's log and created a shell
script to do the job, complete with umount. That works just fine.
(I'm open to K3B suggestions that would be more convenient here -
hint, hint.... :-)
3) Also, the last time I tried to do a multi-session continuation with
K3B I hit enough snags to give up. Actually, that was when I ran into
the erase problem above, but at least that part is solved.
HTH
mhr