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.
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