dvdwriter only as reader

[Joerg Schilling]

>Hello
>suddenly after an apt-get dist-upgrade
>I cannot use my dvdwriter as a dvdwriter, I can only use it as a reader.
>Meaning that it can read all dvds and cds but when I run k3b or gnome burner
>it does not recognize any writer.
>I don't know what went wrong,

>What went wrong (or right, depending on your particular point of view) 
>is cdrecord forking into wodim. 

Correct, the fork was unneeded and did harm OSS.

THe best idea is to remove the fork (visible as wodim _and_ cdrecord)
and to install the original:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/


get the latest original, compile and install cdrecord suid root.

In contrary to the fork, cdrecord _has_ DVD write support.

Jörg

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