I am using the latest MATE on a IBM T60. When I try to write a cd it writes so far then fails. The writer is fine in other distros and it does write DVD’s correctly on MATE but just won’t write CDs. I tried xfburn but that too fails. Any suggestions please.
Thank you.
Hello are you getting some sort of error message?
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Are you trying to burn the disks at maximum speed?, this might cause a fail?, try burning disks at the slowest possible speed!. 
If all else fails, use k3b burning app. To install via a terminal with the following command (Ctrl + Alt + t):
sudo apt-get install k3b
The error is just burn process failed. Sometimes this is almost instant as soon as the operation starts or sometimes after a minute or so. It does put something on the discs as they are no longer blank and its ruined a stack of blanks.
I did try slowing the burn speed but still the same. If I do a dummy write then I get success but the actual write still fails. I have installed Mint and will try some writes in that to make really be sure the drive itself isn’t faulty and report back.
Clean the DVD drive with a disk cleaner! 
k3b is perfect, but some additional stuff is installed as well (dependencies).
i used to have problems with brasero, but now i first burn an image file and then burn it to a cd disc. in this case i usually face no problems
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Sometimes when I’m burning a ISO file to a disk a simple thing like cleaning the disk will works wonders. I’ve since only use USB thumb drives to create my installations less trouble
It is almost certain that there is a problem with the drive and this is not a fault in the OS. So sorry guys and thanks for your replies.
Did you follow the advice above?. 