Sony DRU 510a not recognised by Burning software

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#1

Hi

I have a Sony DRU-510a external USB DVD +/-RW +/-R drive and it’s been recognised by my system when I look at Hardware Info in YAST. The problem is when I try to burn an ISO using Brasero it never thinks there is a blank disk in the drive. It just keeps telling me to put a blank disk in.

I’m running OpenSuse 11.1.

Anybody an ideas please?

Thanks very much.
Bryn

#2

Have you tried running Brasero as root? If you try it as root and it works, then you have a permissions issue and need to add your user to the appropriate group ( I think it is disc, but you should check to make sure) for access to the drive for burning purposes.

open your terminal of choice and:
sudo brasero

#3

There was also a bug in openSUSE-11.1, which I am not 100% certain was fixed by subsequent updates, where accessing cd/dvd devices did not work well because of a permissions issue.

Try this:

YAST » Security and Users » User and Group Management » “select your user” » Edit » Details » Groups » check “cdrom” and “disk” and then click on “ACCEPT”.

Then exit YaST, restart your PC and see if that helps.

I note I no longer have those groups selected for permissions and my CD/DVD reader now works, so I believe the permissions issue was later fixed by a subsequent update.

#4

Thanks oldcpu. I’ve tried that and nothing is any different. Refuses to recognise that there is a blank disk in the drive and enable the OK button.

Any other ideas?

#5

Thanks. I tried running as root and it didn’t make any difference.

Any other ideas please?

#6

You are certain the disk is blank ?

… my apologies for asking , but I’ve made that mistake before myself.

#7

Hehe, yes. I was going to add in the post that I’d tried another disk off the top of the brand new set of disks I bought this week.

I’m confused. This drive worked on Ubuntu. Weird!

#8

Sometimes, one discovers strange solutions for problems …

For example this one (where the user had a different problem with the Sony DRU 510a): invalid field in parameter Nero 5 & 6 Sony DRU-510A - Club CDFreaks / MyCE - Knowledge is Power

… they ended up doing:

*The solution i have is this(it’s not permanent but it works):

Just turn off the combuter.
Then close the I/O switch.
Open it again
Boot

Everytime that i follow that steps i see that the problem "dissapears"and i can burn everything*

#9

Thanks for your efforts so far. Apologies for the delay in replying - had to read the kids a bed time story!

I’ve just tried switching everything off, turning the drive on 1st then booting the machine. No difference. The BURN button still remains unaccessible.

What I hadn’t tried before was burning a CD. Tried that and that worked a treat! So seemingly its something to do with DVD. I also haven’t tried copying a DVD. I’m trying to burn an .ISO image to DVD and that’s whats not working. If you’ve got any other ideas that would be great and in the meantime I’ll try copying a DVD and see if that works.

Thanks again.

#10

brynjellis wrote:
> Hehe, yes. I was going to add in the post that I’d tried another disk
> off the top of the brand new set of disks I bought this week.
>
> I’m confused. This drive worked on Ubuntu. Weird!

What are the kernel versions of the two systems? There could be a
driver change.

#11

Hi, thanks for replying to my post. I can’t remember what my Ubuntu kernel version was I’m afraid - it was Version 9.04 of Ubuntu if that helps.

My current version on Opensuse is 2.6.27.29-0.1-pae.

Just to let you know, I’ve been able to write to a CD and I’ve just tried to copy a DVD and it’s recognised the DVD and is writing it to a temporary .iso file as we speak which is great. It didn’t recognise a DVD+RW (with data already on it) I put in 1st but it has recognised a DVD-R with data already on it. The test I guess will be when it prompts me to put in the disk I want to copy it to which is also a DVD-R.

I’ll let you know what happens.

#12

OK, the result of the DVD copy is that it created the .iso by reading the DVD-R (wouldn’t recognise a DVD+RW) but still won’t copy that .iso to a new disk (DVD-R).

So it looks like it can read (albeit on DVD-R by the looks of it, but that’s fine) but not write.

Strange!