Comment 26 for bug 109763

IMHO, this is may not be a bug in HAL, but a bug in nautilus-cd-burner, probably introduced at version 2.15.
I have successfully written CD using nautilus-cd-burner 2.14.3 on my Feisty system.
The problem appears to be that alternative strategies used to be adopted if volume.disc.capacity was not present, and this is no longer the case (see the function nautilus_burn_drive_get_media_size in nautilus-burn-drive.c (2.14.3), and compare with monitor_set_drive_media in nautilus-burn-drive-monitor.c (2.18.2))
I think it is a nautilus problem because the volume.disc.capacity property is optional in HAL, as can be seen from the spec http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html?view=co#device-properties-volume-disc

An alternative approach may be to add some config to HAL for the missing drives, but this is going to be very piece-meal.

David