>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. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily