DVD-RW Erase Problem

[Aldo Foot]

On Jan 11, 2008 2:14 PM, Daniel Qarras <dqarras at yahoo.com> 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
>
> Thanks!
>
> <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>


Find out your device name
   cdrecord --devices
Erase the media
   wodim -v -force /dev/name -blank=fast

do 'man wodim' for more details.
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