On 03/07/15 22:15, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.
>
I err'd when I wrote the above as I actually found 2 DVD's in the drawer and the one I used was an off-brand from "Melody Group" here in Taiwan and blanking worked.
The Philips brand DVD+RW does *not* support the "blank" option when using the dvd+rw-format tool...
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/sr0
* BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, version 7.1.
* 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
- illegal command-line option for this media.
- you have the option to re-run dvd+rw-format with:
-lead-out to elicit lead-out relocation for better
DVD-ROM compatibility, data is not affected;
-force to enforce new format (not recommended)
and wipe the data.
But, if using cdrecord -v blank=all it will proceed....but I killed it before it started to wipe the disk since I found I wanted to keep the movie that was on it. :-) :-)
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