>From: "Marcello V. Mansueto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Either broken firmware or this medium has already been written to.
>The media was blank.
>In which way the firmware is broken? Can you provide me more
>information? I want to contact a BTC employer to have some help, but
>Linux is not officially supported by BTC, so I need a good reason to
>bother them!
cdrecord uses the official write method for DVD-R. This includes
first sending a "reserve track/zone" command,
If this does not work for a emty medium, the drive seems to be broken.
J�rg
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