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.
>
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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