On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW.
> > I have DVD-RWs.
> > Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder,
> > wodim still will not write to it.
> > Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism
> > for formatting and writing DVD-RWs?
>
> According to the man page for wodim - formatting is not supported for DVD-RW.
> You might take a look at growisofs and dvd+rw-format. The latter command, in
> spite of the name, can deal with DVD-RW media.
>
> It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW
> media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B.
> If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and
> writable media for each device.
>
> Bill Gee
potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd?
I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
for what purpose or need would one format one?
thanks!
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