DVD+RW leeren

[Dietmar Goldbeck]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:07:32PM +0200, Florian Schwarz wrote:
> Hallo Liste,
> 
> wie leere ich eine DVD+RW? Mit folgendem Aufruf
> 

Die kannste/brauchste Du nicht wie eine CD-RW blanken.
Mit den dvd+rwtools kannst Du die direkt wiederbeschreiben.

Siehe http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

It was observed that excessive reformats can render media unusable
already after 10-20 reformats. It appears to be a firmware deficiency,
not some common media defect [at least it was perfectly possible to
salvage the media in a unit of different brand], but I don't recommend
[enforced] reformat in either case. Note that DVD+RW re-formatting
procedure does not substitute for blanking. If you want to nullify the
media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z
/dev/scdN=/dev/zero'. Otherwise just write over previous recording as
it simply wasn't there, no re-formatting is required.

  Ciao
    Dietmar

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