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Update:

I used an external USB DVD-ROM drive, and photorec now sees the disk when started via photorec /dev/sr0 .

One disk I tried before was not successful, photorec finished recovery after 2 seconds, not sure why this happened. Will investigate later.
I just run a recovery of another DVD-RW disk ...

Thanks cgrenier for the hints!
I am sadly a noob with linux, and couldnt start the recovery of fast-erased DVD-RW. Here is what happens using latest ALTLinux:

* I found out that /dev/sr0 is my DVD-recorder via
# dmesg | egrep -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer'

* when I insert a "proper" DVD-RW ...

Hi Forum,

according to cgsecurity http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CDRW#Recovery_of_a_fast_blanked_CD-RW it is possible to recover data from quick-erased DVDs with a linux system.

So I downloaded latest AltLinux, booted it via USB Stick, mounted the session as described at above link.
But then I am ...