Re: erasing DVD+RW

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Stefano Vesa <stefanovesa@tiscali.it> wrote:

> Reading DVD+RW specs. DVD+RW cannot be erased but only overwritten.
> This is i.e. the behaviour of cdrecord and growisofs.
> That's OK but Then I've a question: so what kind of procedure uses 
> Nero (and nerolinux) to blank DV+RW? It reformats the medium? 

DVD+RW cannot be blanked except with the Ricoh 5125.

Maybe they overwrite the first 32 sectors with nulls?

Jörg

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