I'm no expert but it might have something to do with the disc supporting that incremental stuff, so you don't need to blank the disc the traditional way. On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:38 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Will Trives wrote: > >> This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command > >>> wodim: Cannot blank disk, aborting. > >>> wodim: Some drives do not support all blank types. > >>> wodim: Try again with wodim blank=all. > >> wodim suggests "blank=all", does it work? > >> > > Nope same thing happens. > > > > "dvd+rw-format /dev/sr0 -force" Works ok though. > > This looks like a wodim or drive/media problem and for some reason wodim > thinks that the media can't be blanked. Hmmm.. why do you need -force > to dvd+rw-format? What happens if you don't use -force? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html