Posted by Ron on 04/03/07 21:13

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:14:33 GMT, glenzabr@nospamhere.xmission.com
(GMAN) wrote:

>In article <7uvs03ddpfvffkrful9rcctve5j5aceo0q@4ax.com>, Ron <ron_j_mayer@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:01:43 GMT, glenzabr@nospamhere.xmission.com
>>(GMAN) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>There has to be some sort of internal menu with a format function.
>>>>
>>>>There *are* internal Menu functions... one of which is
>>>>"Disk Setup" ..... Manually selecting this option lets
>>>>you choose to "Initialize", "Finalize" and "Undo Finalize"
>>>>...... non of these functions function <S> except when a
>>>>new blank DVD-RW ( or a DVD-RW that had originally
>>>>been initialized by this Pioneer DVR ) is used.
>>>>I've tried formatting and/or wiping using "Nero", "InCD"
>>>>and "Alcohol-120%" ... but the Pioneer does not accept
>>>>the 'prepaired' DVD-RWs for normal processing.
>>>>these
>>>>I believe a utility that gets rid of *all* TOC and all sector/
>>>>formatting/finalizing info while wiping the DVD-RW would
>>>>enable pre used DVD-RWs to be recordable on the
>>>>Pioneer DVR.
>>
>>>I'm looking at page 53 of the manual right now, have you tried both VR and
>>>VIDEO modes?
>>
>>Page 53 - About recording using "VR Mode" and "Video Mode" .....
>>These work for a new blank DVD-RW but are not operational
>>when a formatted or erased disk is used.
>>ALL functions behave normally with *new* blanks though .....
>>
>When you format a DVD-RW you must specify what format you are going to use.
>What i am trying to tell you is try whichever other one you havent tried yet.

Using "InCD", I've tried formatting the DV-RWs using
UDF 1.50, UDF 2.00, UDF 2.01 and UDF 2.50 ..... all to
no avail.
"DVDInfo Pro" says the format type done by the Pioneer
recorder have the "UF 1.02" specification..... this format
option is not provided by "InCD" ...... Am looking for a
formatting utility that does UDF 1.02 ..... haven't found
one yet .....

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