dvd+rw blanking

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 16 08:49:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:32 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Hi,
>    I use a pioneer DVR 108 dvd burner (dual layer) and I can not blank a 
> +rw with
>  xcdroast or cdrecord,as root I get in FC3 xcdroast
> 
> "cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank with non Ricoh based drive.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Some drives do not support all blank types.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Try again with cdrecord blank=all"

If you have new rw media you may need to format it first. You need the
dvd+rw-tools package.

# dvd+rw-format /dev/cdwriter

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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