On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:15:03PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:17:15PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > >>i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te > > >>dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode > > >> > > >>%dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank > > >>* DVD\uffffRW format utility by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, version 4.9. > > >>* 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. > > >>* blanking 100.0| > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >[...] > > > > > >Try to upgrade to a more up to date version of dvd+rw-tools and try with > > >-blank=full option. > > > > > >Marc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i cvsup'd to the latest and still the same thing, any ideas? > > Did you use "-blank=full" or "-blank"? > Did you have the same issue with all DVD-RW brands? Is your DVD burner > firmware up to date? Is your DVD burner mentioned on dvd+rw-tools' > hardware page?
I couldn't get -blank or -blank=full to properly erase a DVD-RAM and I had to resort to "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cd0 bs=2048". That worked for me. YMMV. Carl _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
