DVD-RW Erase Problem

[Robert Nichols]

Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering has anyone else problems with DVD-RW disks under Fedora
> as I do? I've got a dual-boot laptop and with WinXP DVD±RW disks work
> (read/write/erase) all ok. But with Fedora only DVD+RW are fully
> working, DVD-RW disks can be read but erase fails.
> 
> So am I the only one with this problem or is this a more general issue?
> 
> I've filed a bug report about this few months ago but got no reply:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330651

If you have cdrecord installed, try this as a workaround:

     cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd -force erase=fast

Replace "/dev/dvd" with the proper device if that symlink isn't right
on your system.  You need the "-force" to get around whatever it is
that the drive is complaining about.

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