I have been trying to burn a few ISOs lately with no success and have certainly used this hardware in the past, so I am not sure what's going on. I am using DVD-R media (tried multiple discs) which appears to be supported by my drive. Here is the error I received in GnomeBaker on Fedora 14 (64):Executing 'builtin_dd if=/home/tja/Downloads/Torrents/bodhi_0.1.6.iso of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0':-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=2h/CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM - INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT]: Wrong medium type/dev/sr0: Current Write Speed is 1.0x1352KBps.:-[ WRITE@LBA=0h failed with SK=2h/CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM - INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT]: Wrong medium type:-( media is not formatted or unsupported.:-( write failed: Wrong medium type...and this:$ cdrecord -prcapwodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrwUsing /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilitiesDevice type    : Removable CD-ROMVersion        : 5Response Format: 2Capabilities   : Vendor_info    : 'Memorex 'Identification : 'DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16'Revision       : 'BWSB'Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:  Does read CD-R media  Does write CD-R media  Does read CD-RW media  Does write CD-RW media  Does read DVD-ROM media  Does read DVD-R media  Does write DVD-R media  Does not read DVD-RAM media  Does not write DVD-RAM media  Does support test writing  Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks  Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks  Does read digital audio blocks  Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately  Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording  Does read multi-session CDs  Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2  Does not read CD bar code  Does read R-W subcode information  Does not return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected  Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in  Does return CD media catalog number  Does return CD ISRC information  Does support C2 error pointers  Does not deliver composite A/V data...more info:$ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0INQUIRY:                [Memorex ][DVD+/-DLRWL1 F16][BWSB]GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media:         11h, DVD-R Sequential Media ID:              RITEKF1      Current Write Speed:   4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #0:        4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #1:        2.0x1385=2770KB/s Write Speed #2:        1.0x1385=1385KB/sGET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE: Write Performance:     4.0x1385=5540KB/s@[0 -> 0] Speed Descriptor#0:    00/0 R@3.2x1385=4432KB/s W@4.0x1385=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#1:    00/0 R@3.2x1385=4432KB/s W@2.0x1385=2770KB/s Speed Descriptor#2:    00/0 R@3.2x1385=4432KB/s W@1.0x1385=1385KB/sREAD DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]: Media Book Type:       00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0] Legacy lead-out at:    2298496*2KB=4707319808READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type:       25h, DVD-R book [revision 5] Last border-out at:    2045*2KB=4188160READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status:           blank Number of Sessions:    1 State of Last Session: empty Next Track:          1 Number of Tracks:      1READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State:           invisible incremental Track Start Address:   0*2KB Next Writable Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks:           2297888*2KB Track Size:            2297888*2KBREAD CAPACITY:          0*2048=0Does anyone have any ideas as to what caused this? I just reinstalled Fedora today (for other reasons) and I am still unable to burn a DVD. I am using Memorex DVD-R discs, and have tried different ones. The drive appears to read media just fine.Thanks!
Can't burn DVD -- incompatible format
fedora;dvd;burning
You should be able to find out exactly what types of disks your burner will support.That error message indicates it doesn't support DVD-R (as backed up by your comment that it did work with a DVD+R disk)As Gilles commented, you should be able to use dvd+rw-mediainfo but failing that, you could look at the physical writer itself.