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from: Alan Beagley
date: 2006-03-15 22:06:50
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Formatting DVD (not RW) media

I agree with others who have suggested that UDF is for use with -RW 
media, not for -R media.

I've just read that RSJ 6.0 is now available and that it supports 
USB-attached drives, which the earlier versions made no claim to do.

-=-
Alan


On 03/12/06 01:09 pm Steve McCrystal wrote:

> Mere hours after reading all the discussion about the Plextor burners on
> the list I got an offer from Tiger Direct for the PX-740UF for $139.99
> with $90 in rebates! Since I was sorta in the market for a DVD burner,
> and knowing well the Plextor rep for quality, I ordered one.  As an
> aside, I ordered it at 2:15 AM (severe insomnia) and when I arrived home
> from PT at 1:00 PM it was sitting on my back porch.  Hard to beat
> service like that!
> 
> Anyway, this is the first USB device I have felt compelled to own, so I
> had to install the USB drivers on my Warp 4 system (already installed on
> the eCS 12. partition).  The driver install was fairly uneventful (far
> less so that installing the bundled software for Win98).  After a few
> reboots, I am able to access the drive and *read* both CD and DVD
> media.   Feeling gutsy, I decided to try backing up a couple of drives. 
> An attempt to format a new DVD yielded the following:
> 
> C:\>format q: /fs:udf /l
> WARNING: Formatting will erase ALL data on this disk.
> Continue (Yes or No)? Y
> Release Devices failed.
> Drive busy      Virt. Device #:   1
> 
> Format failed.
> Internal error
> 
> I re-RTFM several times, and still am unable to format a blank.  The
> blanks are HP branded, DVD+R, and 4x speed (I've had them a while!). 
> Any idea what I might try next?


 
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