dvd+rw blanking

[david walcroft]

Kevin Freeman wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:32 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>
>>Hi,
>>   I use a pioneer DVR 108 dvd burner (dual layer) and I can not blank a 
>>+rw with
>> xcdroast or cdrecord,as root I get in FC3 xcdroast
>>
>>"cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank with non Ricoh based drive.
>>cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
>>cdrecord.prodvd: Some drives do not support all blank types.
>>cdrecord.prodvd: Try again with cdrecord blank=all"
>>    
>>
>
>What Fedora version are you using?  The FC3 cdrecord package supports
>dvd+/-rw formatting/blanking.  You might try installing FC3 versions of
>cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, etc.  Hopefully there won't be too many
>dependencies.  I suggest this because the version displayed below looks
>like a pre-FC3 version number.  I have blanked/rewritten a number of DVD
>+RW discs using FC2 & FC3.  And I have not had the need to install the
>prodvd version of cdrecord. 
>
>  
>
>>In # 'cdrecord blank=all'  I get
>>
>>sg.c    1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
>>    
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>
>Kevin Freeman
>
>  
>
Kevin,
        Everthing checks out as current FC3 packages and prodvd comes 
from T.Chung
on Fedora News thats where the copyright comes from,I'll try with 
removing prodvd.

Thanks     david