Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-08 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 08.03.2015 um 04:18 schrieb Ed Greshko: 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-f

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
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 C

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/15 10:36, jd1008 wrote: > Same 'ting :) > /usr/local/bin/dvd+rw-format -force=full /dev/sr0 > * BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by , version 7.1. > :-( mounted media doesn't appear to be DVD±RW, DVD-RAM or Blu-ray What does "dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0" return? -- If you can't laugh at y

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread jd1008
On 03/07/2015 06:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 09:22, jd1008 wrote: On 03/07/2015 06:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 07:58, jd1008 wrote: Yes, that was cdrecord's output message. But as I said, the 100 DVD box of Sony dvd/rw media said loudly "RW". So, I do not really know why

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread jd1008
On 03/07/2015 06:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 09:22, jd1008 wrote: On 03/07/2015 06:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 07:58, jd1008 wrote: Yes, that was cdrecord's output message. But as I said, the 100 DVD box of Sony dvd/rw media said loudly "RW". So, I do not really know why

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/15 09:22, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 03/07/2015 06:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/08/15 07:58, jd1008 wrote: >>> Yes, that was cdrecord's output message. >>> But as I said, the 100 DVD box of Sony dvd/rw media >>> said loudly "RW". >>> >>> So, I do not really know why cdrecord says what it

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread jd1008
On 03/07/2015 06:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 07:58, jd1008 wrote: Yes, that was cdrecord's output message. But as I said, the 100 DVD box of Sony dvd/rw media said loudly "RW". So, I do not really know why cdrecord says what it does. But, "RW" doesn't imply that the "blank" command

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/15 07:58, jd1008 wrote: > Yes, that was cdrecord's output message. > But as I said, the 100 DVD box of Sony dvd/rw media > said loudly "RW". > > So, I do not really know why cdrecord says what it does. But, "RW" doesn't imply that the "blank" command is supported. Use "format" instead.

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread jd1008
On 03/07/2015 04:49 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 03/08/15 01:29, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Am 07.03.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Ed Greshko: 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 work

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/15 01:29, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 07.03.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Ed Greshko: >> >> 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 o

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 07.03.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Ed Greshko: 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 reall

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Ed Greshko
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"

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-07 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
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 C

Re: Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-06 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 19:18 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > I have an optiarch CD/DVD/RW drive and Sony RW media. > > I tried to blank the media: > [snip] > Starting to write CD/DVD/BD at speed 8 in real BLANK mode for single > session. > Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation s

Unable to blank dvd/rw media

2015-03-06 Thread jd1008
I have an optiarch CD/DVD/RW drive and Sony RW media. I tried to blank the media: # cdrecord -v blank=all dev=1,0,0 Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a15 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Joerg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg