I have been playing around with rescue tools and cloning etc (I will report if I can make any sense of it) but in the process I have used some DVD RW and I cannot erase them
Brasero has no option but there must be a program out there that does the job?
It is not recognized as a RW DVD it seems....
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Not able to erase my RW DVD
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Re: Not able to erase my RW DVD
I have tried every command Google has to offer so I seriously suspect that the label on those Disk is wrong. They simply are not RW as it says, according to all the software in the world.
I cant remember where I bought them so I don't know who to kill either
I cant remember where I bought them so I don't know who to kill either
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Re: Not able to erase my RW DVD
I haven't used RW media in a long time but thought k3b had a blanking option.
Looking at wodim, maybe there is some difference between blanking a CD and a DVD. See the manual
wodim dev=/dev/sr1 -format
perhaps Of course, the proper device is needed.
Oh, that reminds me I don't remember so much blanking CD-RW before writing over it. Perhaps it's not needed.
Looking at wodim, maybe there is some difference between blanking a CD and a DVD. See the manual
wodim dev=/dev/sr1 -format
perhaps Of course, the proper device is needed.
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-format
Format a CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc. Formatting is currently only
implemented for DVD+RW media. A 'maiden' DVD+RW media needs to
be formatted before you may write to it. However, as wodim
autodetects the need for formatting in this case and auto
formats the medium before it starts writing, the -format option is
only needed if you like to forcibly reformat a DVD+RW medium.
Oh, that reminds me I don't remember so much blanking CD-RW before writing over it. Perhaps it's not needed.
Re: Not able to erase my RW DVD
Hmm looks like it is busy - I need to unmount it first...
Stay put.. unmounting and repeating:
And there you see why I suspect that the engraved RW on those disks is wrong. Although it does state Maybe that command does not handle DVD?
Going for the K3b approach...
And when I run that as root (not recommended) I get the interesting message that it cannot find growisofs which is essential in handling DVD's I think we are getting closer to something here....
So I try to install the dvd+rw-tools that k3b told me to
And the DVD RW is still not recognized as something that can be formated (or written to).....
I seem to remember that my old DVD -player was able to format these disks and record the movies on them when I transfered my VHS to DVD some time ago - so it should be possible somehow
Well time to check that out then going away from my PC and replace it with a DVD player and a remote control - and oh wonder it does in fact format the DVD.
So that is it.
My PC hardware is obviously not able to record or erase DVD's (but it is able to play them). I always forget that And the RW DVD's are re-writable.
Let this be a lesson to you
Still my laptop does indicate DVD and RW on the HW - and I did not manage it there either
The bizarre situation is that I can erase my movies and record new movies on those DVD's but I cannot format them with a computer!
Not with Windows and not with Linux - how very embarrassing.
Stay put.. unmounting and repeating:
And there you see why I suspect that the engraved RW on those disks is wrong. Although it does state
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Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Going for the K3b approach...
And when I run that as root (not recommended) I get the interesting message that it cannot find growisofs which is essential in handling DVD's I think we are getting closer to something here....
So I try to install the dvd+rw-tools that k3b told me to
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sudo urpmi dvd+rw-tools
Pakka dvd+rw-tools-7.1-3mdv2010.1.x86_64 er allerede installert <---- already installed
And the DVD RW is still not recognized as something that can be formated (or written to).....
I seem to remember that my old DVD -player was able to format these disks and record the movies on them when I transfered my VHS to DVD some time ago - so it should be possible somehow
Well time to check that out then going away from my PC and replace it with a DVD player and a remote control - and oh wonder it does in fact format the DVD.
So that is it.
My PC hardware is obviously not able to record or erase DVD's (but it is able to play them). I always forget that And the RW DVD's are re-writable.
Let this be a lesson to you
Still my laptop does indicate DVD and RW on the HW - and I did not manage it there either
The bizarre situation is that I can erase my movies and record new movies on those DVD's but I cannot format them with a computer!
Not with Windows and not with Linux - how very embarrassing.
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
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Re: Not able to erase my RW DVD Topic is solved
Formatting is currently only
implemented for DVD+RW media.
-from the wodim manual/info page. Some years ago I was reading the words of a developer of one of these softwares and he said to stick with CD|DVD+RW, that -RW did not work as reliably. For all the years since, I have only been buying +RW media...
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Re: Not able to erase my RW DVD[SOLVED]
Ditto.
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