Re: cdrecord: failure in auto-formatting DVD+RW Verbatim media on USB-TSSTcorp

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

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

> Hi,
>
> > cdrskin will format and write the medium automatically.
>
> It uses Background Formatting, format type 26h.

Cdrecord does the same as it is the official formatting from the 
SCSI standard for this medium.

Cdrecord of course does always automatic formatting when the disk
is flagged as unformatted by the drive.



Jörg

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