dvd+rw blanking

[Kevin Freeman]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:32 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Hi,
>    I use a pioneer DVR 108 dvd burner (dual layer) and I can not blank a 
> +rw with
>  xcdroast or cdrecord,as root I get in FC3 xcdroast
> 
> "cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank with non Ricoh based drive.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Some drives do not support all blank types.
> cdrecord.prodvd: Try again with cdrecord blank=all"

What Fedora version are you using?  The FC3 cdrecord package supports
dvd+/-rw formatting/blanking.  You might try installing FC3 versions of
cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, etc.  Hopefully there won't be too many
dependencies.  I suggest this because the version displayed below looks
like a pre-FC3 version number.  I have blanked/rewritten a number of DVD
+RW discs using FC2 & FC3.  And I have not had the need to install the
prodvd version of cdrecord. 

> In # 'cdrecord blank=all'  I get
> 
> sg.c    1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').

Kevin Freeman