problems burning multi session dvd-rw

[Carl Delsey]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:15:03PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:17:15PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
> > Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > >>i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te 
> > >>dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode
> > >>
> > >>%dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank
> > >>* DVD\uffffRW format utility by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 4.9.
> > >>* 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected.
> > >>* blanking 100.0|
> > >>
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >Try to upgrade to a more up to date version of dvd+rw-tools and try with
> > >-blank=full option.
> > >
> > >Marc
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > i cvsup'd to the latest and still the same thing, any ideas?
> 
> Did you use "-blank=full" or "-blank"?
> Did you have the same issue with all DVD-RW brands?  Is your DVD burner
> firmware up to date?  Is your DVD burner mentioned on dvd+rw-tools'
> hardware page?

I couldn't get -blank or -blank=full to properly erase a DVD-RAM and
I had to resort to "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cd0 bs=2048". That worked
for me. YMMV.

Carl