I'm trying to use DVD-RW ("minus RW") disks in my LG GSA-4040B drive. I can write a new disk just fine, but can't find any way to blank or re-use a disk. When I run xcdroast and click on the "Blank CD/DVD+-RW" button, I get "Error while blanking." Here is last part of the dialog:
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd) Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1245184 = 1216 KB Drive DMA Speed: 11772 kB/s 66x CD 8x DVD cdrecord.prodvd: Success. set streaming: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: B6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 10 B6 00 00 0D 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segmant 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 0.004 s timeout 40s Current Secsize: 2048 cdrecord.prodvd: Cannot set speed/dummy. ATIP start of lead in: -150 (00:00/00)
I've had similar lack of success trying to blank or overwrite using cdrecord or growisofs. The disks I'm using are Sony 2X DVD-RW 4.7GB, which _should_ be compatible with the drive AFAICT. The drive is happy to write to a new disk.
I'm not using KDE, so I'd prefer a command-line or Gnome tool.