Problems burning DVD-RW

[Rolf Nielsen]

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On 2014-11-27 18:21, christian wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Every once a while I'd like to burn a DVD-RW. It works as long as
> I'm using fresh (blank) DVD-RW media. But if I want to overwrite a
> non-blank one then I get the following output:

<...>

> Thanks for your help, Christian.

DVD-RW media need to be blanked if they were previously written to.
Try something like this:

cdrecord -v dev=4,0,0 blank=fast

before the actual recording.
If the above doesn't work, try blank=all instead of blank=fast.

Rolf
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