dvd+rw blanking

[Kevin Freeman]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:44 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >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,
>       In trying your suggestion I get
> 
> "[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc
> * DVDRW/-RAM format utility by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 4.10.
> :-( mounted media doesn't appear to be DVDRW or DVD-RAM
> 
> I tried with '/dev/cdwriter  /media/cdrecoder /dev/hdc'  and had the 
> same responce.
> 
> Thanks        david

What is the output of dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/hdc ?  Maybe the media is
bad.

Kevin Freeman