cleaning DVD+RW on Plextor PX-716a

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Sat May 7 02:29:55 PDT 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:18:40PM +0600, Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> do I need to clean RW disk before writing ?
>

No.  You should be able to "rewrite" on a DVD+RW without any blacking
operation.

> why it says errors to me:
> 
> design# burncd -f /dev/acd0 format dwd+rw
> burncd: format media type invalid: Unknown error: 0
> 

I don't know about burncd and DVD+RW but you should try growisofs,
see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html
and section "16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW"

Marc


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