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I was just able to reformat all my previously unformatable cd+rw at speed=1 

so back in business.



Alex
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:24:05PM +1000, Greg Cockburn wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> I had a similar problem, but with DVDs.  I had to used cdrecord-prodvd to 
> blank the disk.
> 
> It is a commercial programme some how based on cdrecord. I didn't look into it 
> too much. There is a trial version. So give it a go.
> 
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> 
> Good luck,
> Greg.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:40 pm, Alexander Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have run in a strange situation using cdrdao, I have written a vcd
> > image to a cd+rw.  My problem is I can not blank this CD now.
> >
> > Is this a linux thing, I have tried it with cdrecord + cdrdao both fail
> >
> > on my laptop with an ide-scsi drive I get Not ready error, seems like
> > the drive can't even load the cd
> >
> > on my external (firewire) cd burner i get
> >
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00
> > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> > Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 20s
> > ERROR: Test Unit Ready command failed.
> > Blanking time: 10 seconds
> > ERROR: Blanking failed.
> >
> > this is from a cdrdao --disk-info
> > CD-RW                : yes
> > Total Capacity       : n/a
> > CD-R medium          : DIGITAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD
> >                        Long Strategy Type, e.g. Cyanine
> > Recording Speed      : 0X - 4X
> > CD-R empty           : no
> > Toc Type             : CD-DA or CD-ROM
> > Sessions             : 1
> > Last Track           : 2
> > Appendable           : no
> >
> >
> > This external cd burner is the one that burnt the cd's very starnge they
> > can't read them again, plays okay in dvd player
> >
> > I am using 2.6.5-4 (debian)
> >
> > Alex
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