Hi, Andy's observations with sequential DVD-RW, fast- and full-blanking, and DAO match my own ones with my elder DVD burners (which both went hardly usable meanwhile due to other reasons).
To my big surprise the newer generation of my hardware flatly announces feature 0021h, wheras the old ones did only with fully blanked media. The best remedy known to me is to determine whether the conditions of DAO are given: size predictable and no multi desired. In that case DAO should be chosen automatically. Since xorriso and cdrskin (like growisofs) love multi, i have decided to map blank option "fast" to full blanking with DVD-RW. Only special blank options like "deformat_quickest" really do MMC fast blanking. If one needs quickly re-usable DVD-RW, then formatting to Restricted Overwrite is superior anyway. (Provided drive and media are suitable.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
