Unable to blank dvd/rw media

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/08/15 01:29, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Am 07.03.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Ed Greshko:
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>> 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.
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> Perhaps this depends on the types of drive or media. I used 'cdrecord -v blank=all' on two different DVD+RW brands and got error outputs similar to the op's, whereas the same command erased a CD-RW just fine.

Yes, well the error was....

This drive *OR* media does not support the 'BLANK media' command

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