Plextor 712A won't rewrite DVD-RW (why not?)

[Peter King]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
 
> Well I haven't tried DVD-RW on the plextor drives, I have only used
> DVD+RW so far (along with DVD-R) and for the DVD+RW I just keep using
> the same disk to write images to and I never have to blank or format or
> anything in between.  I would have thought it would work the same way on
> DVD-RW but I could be wrong.  Everything else looks correct on first
> look.  

I can (re)write DVD+RW without any problem. It's only rewriting DVD-RW 
that poses a problem.

> The cdwrite mailing list (lists.debian.org hosts it although it is not
> a debian list) is a great place to ask questions (the authors of both
> dvd+rw-tools and cdrecord hang out there.  Watch out for the author of
> cdrecord.  He seems to think no one else writes decent code, and that
> Solaris is the only OS that ever is close to working, but everything
> else on the list is great).

I've posted there, too, but no replies yet; the answer must be either
too easy or too hard!

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