Hallo, habe keine Erfahrung mit RW-CD's und wollte dies aendern ;-) Der Versuch des Loeschens von CD-RW (Octron) verlief erfolgkos, auf meinem Vobis-Laptop mit Mandrake 9.1. Nach negativen Versuch in gcombust und K3b - nun das Ergebnis der Konsole: ----------------------- schnipp -------------------------------- [root@ion joern]# /usr/bin/cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 blank=all Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a18-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>. Note: The author of cdrecord is not to be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' SCSI buffer size: 64512 atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'QSI ' Identifikation : 'CDRW/DVD SBW-241' Revision : 'VX09' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Current: 0x000A Profile: 0x0010 Profile: 0x0008 Profile: 0x0009 Profile: 0x000A (current) Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1605632 = 1568 KB Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 2 Reference speed: 6 Is not unrestricted Is erasable Disk sub type: High speed Rewritable (CAV) media (1) ATIP start of lead in: -12900 (97:10/00) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) 1T speed low: 4 1T speed high: 10 2T speed low: 4 2T speed high: 0 (reserved val 6) power mult factor: 1 5 recommended erase/write power: 5 A1 values: 24 1A D8 A2 values: 26 B2 48 Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) Manuf. index: -1 Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo. As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information, it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Performing OPC... Blanking entire disk /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 9600s /usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. ----------------------- schapp ------------------------------- Habe es dann noch - erfolglos - mit der -force-Option probiert ... Viele Gruesse Joern