CD burning problem

[Michael Klinosky <mpk2 enter net>]

My problem: On my linux machines, I have NEVER been able to burn a CD 
with a burner on the IDE bus. Furthermore, this has been with 4 
*completely* different motherboards, and at least 3 burners. I should 
note that they're all about 2 - 5 years old. I should also note that my 
external USB read/burn everything optical drive /did/ burn CDs with SUSE 
and FC 5, but NOT with FC 6 (same problem); it does still work on my 
wintel box.

All of these machines will read CDs fine. N.b. - I use gnome exclusively
(no KDE or other stuff) in runlevel 5. When I insert a blank CD, the
icon appears (labeled  'blank CD'), and the CD/DVD Creator pops up. I
drag-drop the files and directories, click 'Write', and the details
window appears. I select the drive, change the title, and click OK.

Then I get a window stating "Please insert a disc with atleast xxx MiB
free."

I know that it's blank (straight from the spindle). This happens 
consistently (I've tried many discs from this batch). Btw - I'm still on 
my first batch (50 discs) - haven't tried others. I don't think it's a 
crappy brand (Imation). If so many discs were bad, I'm sure that they 
would have given the same error in the usb drive (which I did NOT have 
with SUSE and FC5, and don't have with the wintel box).

Someone at my linux club helped figure this out a bit more. Running 
nautilus-cd-burner in a terminal presents this error:
"No property volume.disc.capacity". We tried a web search - found 
nothing that would help.

I'm getting to think that I'm the only person in the world with this 
problem! HELP!