Unmountable DVDs

[O. Sinclair]

On 10/31/2013 10:05 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 31/10/13 18:00, O. Sinclair wrote:
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>> I think you misunderstood him - as I read his post he states that once
>> the RW disc is reformatted using K3B nothing happens. No actions
>> options etc, but the disc just spins in the reader a few times
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> In his opening post Phil states, quite categorically, "A batch of DVDs
> were formatted using K3B so that they could be reused."
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> "...so that they can be reused."
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> What does this state?
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> k3b will NOT reformat a RW disc if it has already been formatted.
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> k3b will only format a NEW, UNUSED, blank RW disc.
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> Try it and read the message which k3b shows.
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> If Phil means something else then he should describe exactly what the
> situation is and what was formatted with what et al.
>
Well I think this is semantics. Clearly he means erasing a rewritable, 
something many call reformatting. K3b says "format/erase rewritable 
disc" in its menu

And as I get it following that procedure the discs are not recognised by 
his Kubuntu system.