xcdroast does not like DVD+R drives

[Wolfgang]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:49, Peter Kiem wrote:
> OK to solve my DVD writing problems I installed xcdroast-0.98a14-2 that
> comes with Fedora Core 1.
> 
> I installed the cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a21-i686-pc-linux-gnu plugin and the
> security key as directed on the website.
> 
> xcdroast detects the drive fine as a "RICOH DVD+RW MP5240" and allows me
> to select the 4.7GB media.
> 
> 1) Blanking the DVD+RW it tells me "cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank with
> non Ricoh based drive".
> 
> 2) Trying to write some files to the DVD it tells me "A CD-R/RW is
> required in the CD-Writer before a session can be mastered.  Please
> insert a CD-R/RW and try again".  Does this mean it is still only able
> to do minus (-) media?
> 
> 
> Looks like it is back to M$ Windows to do my backups *sigh*
This might sound like a silly question, but did you rename the
cdrecord-prodvd-2xxx file to cdrecord-prodvd?? As there is a bug in the
description. As there is no dot "." between the filename, it has to be a
minus sign "-". And also make sure that you put in the security key from
the "8:" to the end of the key. (Else you stuck burning a max of 1G)

As I can burn DVD-R's just fine with Xcdroast. I use a Pioneer DVR-105,
to burn them.

Wolf