Re: How to "blank" / "zero out" / "nullify" a dvd-rw?

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

"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:


> I just tested with an overwriteable DVD-RW and
> cdrecord-2.01.01a23 . Only failure is that i cannot
> combine the blank run with the write run:
>   cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 blank=fast -sao tsize="$size"s -
> yields
>   WARNING: Phys disk size 2146400 differs from rzone size 0! Prerecorded disk?
>   WARNING: Phys start: 196608 Phys end 2343007
>   cdrecord: Data will not fit on any disk.
>   cdrecord: Cannot write CD's >= 100 minutes.

This is problem I've seen so far only with wodim.

You should upgrade to recent original software

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/

install it suid rood and if you still have problems write a _usable_
report.

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/problems.html

Jörg

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