K3B fails to format or burn DVD+rw

Bug #1332760 reported by laurence dawney
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Bug Description

Trying to format DVD+rw K3B returns message "format failed"
I try re-inserting the disk to re-try and same message over and over...
Same if I try just burning DVD+rw without formatting.. K3B begins pre-formating then fail message, and again if I re-insert disk to re-try same message over and over.
Just once a DVD+rw completed burn, but when I re-inserted that disk after "successful" burn it wont even read.. the machine doesn't even know there is a disk in the drive!! The disk is now a coaster...
 it happens every time!

If I burn a DVD-r or DVD+r, or CD-r burning completes perfectly and resulting disk works without a problem, and no data errors etc.
Just DVD+rw that gives this trouble... and the same machine burned DVD+rw just fine before I switched over from windows so I don't think my drive is at fault.
I have tried installing brasero and it has the same issue, I tried purge + re-install of K3B and DVD+rw-tools etc but no joy.

Hardware:
Dell-Alienware M15x with PLDS DVD+/-RW DC-8A2SH optical drive
Running Linux Mint 16 KDE x64

Vlad Orlov (monsta)
affects: linuxmint → k3b (Ubuntu)
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