I have been trying to erase a CD-RW(moserbaer) using cdrecord utility (on kernel 2.6.11). Writing o CD-R is not an issue. To erase the disk I issued the command "cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdd blank=all"

After issuing this command it receive the following message

<snip> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 10 in real BLANK mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Performing OPC... cdrecord: OPC failed. Blanking entire disk 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 215.197s timeout 9600s cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.

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I searched on google there have been people who have faced similar problems albeit with different kernel and different cd writers. I also see an option '-force' but it comes with a warning about damaging CD-RW media. Has anyone tried this option?

Has anyone come across a similar problem? Any workarounds or hints?

Regards, Chirag

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