On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:31 -0700, Larry Sword wrote:
> "S. Newhouse" wrote:
> > Civileme writes:
> > > Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them?
> >
> > Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW:
> > ----------------------------------
> > cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
>
> Have you tried with the -force switch?
> From the man page:
> -force Force to continue on some errors. This option cur�
> rently implements some tricks that will allow you
> to blank bad CD-RW disks.
>
> blank
>
> If used together with the -force flag, this option may be
> used to blank CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be
> blanked. Note that you may need to specify blank=all
> because some drives will not continue with certain types
> of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that cdecord does it's best
> if the -force flag is used but it finally depends on the
> drive's firmware whether the blanking operation will suc�
> ceed or not.
As I posted before, I had a CD-RW which was first used under
Windows98 with WinOnCD. I never got it blanked.
# cdrecord -force blank=all dev=4,0
gave the same error as above. cdrecord *did* something to the
media though because afterwards the CD-RW was totally unreadable
even under Windows.
wobo
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