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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:42:27 -0700
From:      "Carl Delsey" <cdelsey@qwest.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blanking DVD+RW
Message-ID:  <20050820034227.GA54271@localhost.local>
In-Reply-To: <B7F79316-4341-4520-87E8-A71E0208E1E1@u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:12:46AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:24:15AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
>   Thanks for the quick reply.  I notice for DVD-RW it is possible to
> return its "Disc status" to "blank" by running:
> "cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 blank=all"
> 
> This command doesn't work for DVD+RW however. So I guess it is never
> possible to return a +RW to its original 'blank' status?
> 

I was able to "blank" my DVD-RAM by using dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/dvd bs=2048. At least this blanked it enough that growisofs
considered it blank next time I ran it.

Carl 



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