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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:50:04 +0200
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To: Claudio Discepola <cdiscepola@encentrus.com>
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Subject: Re: blanking DVD+RW
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a quick question about blanking a DVD+RW.  It seems that even
> after I run the "growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/zero" command the "Disc
> status" is still seen as "complete" instead of "blank". 
>

I assume "blank" is for a "never written-on" disk, since your DVD+RW has
been used at least 1 time, growisofs formatted it, so it's not "blank."

Marc