[PLUG] Cannot burn M disc CentOS 7...

michael at robinson-west.com michael at robinson-west.com
Fri Jan 24 22:21:44 UTC 2020


January 23, 2020 11:09 PM, michael at robinson-west.com wrote:

> January 23, 2020 10:22 PM, tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Try k3b
>> 
>> You will need the media inserted to the BD-writer for k3b to tell you what
>> formats it can use.
>> 
>> Seems to work with my LG drive - though I never burned 100GB media.
>> 
>> Tomas
>> 
>> On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 02:52 +0000, michael at robinson-west.com wrote:
>> 
>>> January 23, 2020 8:43 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:18:53 +0000
>>> michael at robinson-west.com dijo:
>> 
>> I have a burner that says MODISC on it and a 100 gig blank M disc.
>> Brasero says there is no media though.
>> 
>> How do I verify that my Blu ray burner can burn M discs let alone 100
>> gig media?
>>> Not all Blu-ray burners are equal. Some can only burn 25G discs, some
>>> 50G and others full 100G media. The make and model number is a start,
>>> and sometimes you need the serial number to determine what it can do.
>>> you might be able to get those with sudo lshw.
>>> 
>>> Also, my favorite trick is to put the media in upside down and then
>>> wonder why the burner software says there is no media.
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>>> *-cdrom:1
>>> description: DVD-RAM writer
>>> product: BDDVDRW UH12NS30
>>> vendor: HL-DT-ST
>>> physical id: 1
>>> bus info: scsi at 5:0.0.0
>>> logical name: /dev/sr1
>>> version: 1.03
>>> capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
>>> configuration: ansiversion=5 status=ready
>>> *-medium
>>> physical id: 0
>>> logical name: /dev/sr1
>>> 
>>> It's an LG brand burner and it says MODISC on the front, but it is older than
>>> my external drive.
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> 
> k3b is working with my external drive just fine. Question is, is my internal M disc drive capable
> of handling 100G disks?
> I'll find out once the 72,376.0 MB burn completes. I'm at 80% right now.
> 
> The real test is checking the iso files after they are burned to disk.
> 
> I probably don't need a full 72GB of Buster to install it, but I prefer to have everything
> available offline just in case.
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Looks like my internal LG burner cannot handle 100G disks, but my external burner has no problem with them.

I'd like to replace my internal drive, but what do I replace it with and who has a new one?

I consider this issue resolved for now, at least partially.



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