Unable to blank dvd/rw media

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage at gmx.de
Sat Mar 7 11:52:29 UTC 2015


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.



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