Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > No message, it just went to 100% CPU and quit responding. Did you start it in a terminal window by a shell command ? In this case my local K3B (2.0.2) floods it with debug messages. > DVD-R So i need to get a DVD-RW into blank unformatted state. K3B offers me "Format and Erase" but not bl

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-29 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: The last time I use it [K3B], , it crapped out after writing, but before finalizing. Sounds like a growisofs problem. If it was with unformatted DVD-R or DVD-RW media, does it resemble this error ? https://bugzilla.redhat.co

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Hennebry wrote: > The last time I use it [K3B], , it crapped out after writing, > but before finalizing. Sounds like a growisofs problem. If it was with unformatted DVD-R or DVD-RW media, does it resemble this error ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810483 Any message

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-28 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and wr

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am upstream developer of libburn. Nevertheless, the following is intended to be purely technical info, not advertising. Better do not use wodim with DVD media. It was forked from a CD-only version of cdrecord and got added not-so-skilled code for operating DVD. One should use dvd+rw-tools o

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-26 Thread Nataraj
On 04/25/2018 09:33 AM, fred roller wrote: > [snip] >>> I have DVD-RWs. > [snip] >> I am assuming (and we all know what that > means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. > [snip] > > It is not an assumption. OP has Re-Write (RW) disks. > I suggest that you try xorriso.  In recent years I've had muc

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 12:44 PM Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > > > > > > > > It is possible that the optical drive i

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > > > > > > It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support > > > DVD-RW > > > media.

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread fred roller
[snip] >> I have DVD-RWs. [snip] > I am assuming (and we all know what that means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. [snip] It is not an assumption. OP has Re-Write (RW) disks. (JIC: https://www.google.com/search?q=dvd-rw+definition&oq=dvd-rw&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5006j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=U

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. > I have DVD-RWs. > Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, > wodim still will not write to it. > Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism > for formatting and writing DVD-RWs? > Have you ever used k

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > > > > It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support > > DVD-RW > > media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use > > K3

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/04/2018 16:07, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote: My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorde

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote: > > My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. > > I have DVD-RWs. > > Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, > > wodim still will not w

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Bill Gee
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote: > My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. > I have DVD-RWs. > Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, > wodim still will not write to it. > Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism > for formatting

[CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD recorder, wodim still will not write to it. Is there a centos-6-useable mechanism for formatting and writing DVD-RWs? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but y