Help with DVD formating

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I was trying to erase and recover the use of some DVD’s I have used in a in
a DVR tonight and ran into a wall which I don’t understand. I’m running
under 11.4-Evergreen using k3b from the Packman repo. The media are all
Verbatim DVD-RW

Here’s the issue - best I can tell. The disc from the DVR is identified by
k3b as “DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite” while the empty media straight out of
the box is identified as “DVD-RW Sequential” - as are previous DVD’s I’ve
burned .iso images onto. Using the format/erase operation from the tools
menu winds up with the “DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite” and attempts to write
an iso fail - even on DVD’s that have had NOTHING written besides a format.

I now have several basically unusable, dataless discs and I’d like to
recover the use of them - hey! I’m cheap, OK? I’m also puzzled as I’ve been
going back and forth between using the discs on the DVR and as DVD-RAM/ROM
for years. Can anyone educate me as to wtf is happening here? And how do I
get back to usable, blank DVD state with them?

–
Will Honea

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hello,
this may help :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_Burning

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manchette fr wrote:

>
> hello,
> this may help :
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_Burning

That helps, but I still don’t see how to change the media type back to what
it started as when I pull out a fresh, clean DVD-RW. Even after using the
k3b format process, the discs are coming out showing that they are not empty
when I display the media info k3b presents.

–
Will Honea

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Will Honea wrote:

> manchette fr wrote:
>
>>
>> hello,
>> this may help :
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_Burning
>
> That helps, but I still don’t see how to change the media type back to
> what
> it started as when I pull out a fresh, clean DVD-RW. Even after using the
> k3b format process, the discs are coming out showing that they are not
> empty when I display the media info k3b presents.

OK. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/-RW/ looks like a good read
on what the media type really means as well as some info on changing it.

–
Will Honea