[ILUG] DVD+RW

[Kevin Philp]

My home computer has an NEC DVD writer. I don't use it very often but when I 
first got it I used it to burn a backup DVD of my system. It worked just 
fine. Yesterday I tried to get it working with my new Gentoo installation but 
K3B (which uses growisofs) just complains it doesn't recognise the media. It 
allowed me to format the disk but not to wirte to it. I tried several disks 
from the same pack (the same pack that worked 6 months ago) but got the same 
complaint. Is the media just rubbish and I "got lucky" with the first disk or 
am I missing something on the setup? I also tried xcdroast which uses 
cdrecord-prodvd and that didn't work either.

Kevin.