Re: Problems mounting DVD-RWs written with growisofs

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Andy's observations with sequential DVD-RW,
fast- and full-blanking, and DAO match my
own ones with my elder DVD burners (which
both went hardly usable meanwhile due to other
reasons).

To my big surprise the newer generation of
my hardware flatly announces feature 0021h,
wheras the old ones did only with fully blanked
media.
The best remedy known to me is to determine
whether the conditions of DAO are given:
size predictable and no multi desired.
In that case DAO should be chosen automatically.

Since xorriso and cdrskin (like growisofs) love
multi, i have decided to map blank option "fast"
to full blanking with DVD-RW. Only special blank
options like "deformat_quickest" really do MMC
fast blanking.
If one needs quickly re-usable DVD-RW, then
formatting to Restricted Overwrite is superior
anyway. (Provided drive and media are suitable.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas