Problems burning DVD-RW

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2014-11-28 16:22, christian wrote:
> > Hi Rolf!
> >
> > On 28.11.2014 10:43, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
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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.
> >>
> > That did the trick! Thanks for you help!
> >
> > Ciao, Christian.
> >
>
> Glad I could help. You could also try DVD+RW. They needn't be blanked.
>
> Rolf
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I have abandoned DVD-RW usage many years ago .

Reason is that DVD+RW is more robust with respect to writing/reading errors
:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD%2BRW

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk