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> References: <1124376046.3696.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050818145004.GE660@gothic.blackend.org> <1124378655.3696.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050818154010.GF660@gothic.blackend.org> <9A906138-3AFC-44E5-9533-DF89D1183B0D@u.washington.edu> <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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