Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/07/15 19:52, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Am 07.03.2015 um 03:18 schrieb jd1008:
> > This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command
> > cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
>
> These lines say it all, see the BLANK command applies to CDs, not to DVD-rw's ("cdrecord --help").
> Usually you *format* these media once, then, unlike CDs, you simply overwrite them.

I hardly use optical media these days.  But I happen to find an old Philips DVD+RW disk in a drawer.  I used the cdrecord -v blank=all command on it and it worked just fine.  I didn't save the output it created but there was a HINT telling me I really should be using the dvd+rw-format command.