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Blanking a booteable CD-R RW.

kernel 2.6.21.5, slackware 12.0
cdrecord 2.01.x

I made a CD-R RW booteable and now can't blank it. I did

cdrecord -force -blank=all dev=1001,0,0

and got

Code:

Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real force BLANK mode for single session.

Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.

cdrecord: Success. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error

CDB:  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)

Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00

Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0

Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0

Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 

cmd finished after 12.652s timeout 9600s

Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real force BLANK mode for single session.

No chance to quit anymore. Operation starts.

cdrecord: Success. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error

CDB:  A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)

Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 51 00 00 00

Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0

Sense Code: 0x51 Qual 0x00 (erase failure) Fru 0x0

Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) 

cmd finished after 15.615s timeout 9600s

cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

semoi@darkstar:~$

Any suggestion will be welcome.

You don't have to read the story, but at the end you'll find links for a shell script that will erase CDs. You can perform a fast erase or full.

Burning CDs On A Remote Machine

I wrote that script on 12.2 and have used the script since moving to 13.1.

Should work on 12.0 but I don't sell warranties. :)

It was kind of you. However, your script, of which I should care for the erase funcion, shouldn't I, is essentially what I did: to use blank= fast/all. As for $DRYRUN, I ran with -eject -dummy first. All identical. The -eject is a Philips-some-models thing.