On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 14:32 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Hi, > I use a pioneer DVR 108 dvd burner (dual layer) and I can not blank a > +rw with > xcdroast or cdrecord,as root I get in FC3 xcdroast > > "cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank with non Ricoh based drive. > cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot blank disk, aborting. > cdrecord.prodvd: Some drives do not support all blank types. > cdrecord.prodvd: Try again with cdrecord blank=all" If you have new rw media you may need to format it first. You need the dvd+rw-tools package. # dvd+rw-format /dev/cdwriter Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>