On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > (/dev/hdd).
> under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The > DVD writer will recognise one. > Any ideas? Humm... you might want to check how HAL detects that devices. There are some GUIs, but you can send a report with: hal-find-by-capability --capability storage.cdrom | xargs hal-device I suppose it's important to have a line with "storage.cdrom.cdrw = true", then we can check "storage.removable.media_available" ... Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org