[Debburn-devel] wodim -- on sony DVD-RW

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> Yeah, when the disks were new I had no problems. + I have a dozen of
> Sony RWs which do not work anymore (there goes the 'lifetime'
> warranty).
> 
> So finally it boils down to bad media.

You could try to format them by
  dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0
or
  cdrskin -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=format_overwrite
or
  xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -format as_needed

Afterwards they behave like DVD+RW. I.e. no blanking needed any more.
Afaik, wodim refuses to write onto formatted DVD-RW.
So you will probably have to use one of the above burn programs:
  genisoimage ... | growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0
or
  genisoimage ... | cdrskin -v dev=/dev/sr0 -
or
  genisoimage ... | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -
 

Have a nice day :)

Thomas