Tom, I think it likely that the patch I had attached to my previous message (entitled Additional disc identification) provides a fix for problem with old drives. The issue is that newer drives have a command that returns the size of the disc, for older drives this command is missing, but you can probe the disc itself to get the information. This is what my patch to hal does. It is in a format that you can just drop it into the debian/patches directory of HAL and then rebuild and re-install it. I have sent it to the HAL developers but so far there have been no comments from them.
I tested it on my LG drive using HAL 0.5.9, but I expect the patch would work with 0.5.8 - the only reason I upgraded was in the hope that this problem would have been resolved, and I don't think the affected file has been touched for a couple of years. It would be good to get your feedback on the patch as this would double the number of devices on which it has been tested! David -- Insert a rewriteable or blank disc when trying to use CD/DVD Creator, with blank disc in CDR drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109763 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
