Re: blank=all only works in isolation
I'd disagree about its validity. Blanking a CDRW disc before
writing sounded reasonable enough to me. I always thought
that it didn't work because Linux was buggy.
(About my "Linux was buggy" comment: I started noticing this
after mounting HFS CDROM's started causing kernel panics, and
afterwards found out that this serious problem was caused by
a bug in Linux that is not going to be fixed. As for whether
the blanking-then-writing worked before, I *think* I have seen
it work before but, judging from what others are writing, I
likely didn't remember correctly.)
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Mike 'Fox' Morrey wrote:
> Me neither. I know I had tried, and it didn't work, way
> before 1.0-final came out. I didn't complain because I
> figured that it wasn't valid - like you say, doing two
> steps at once..
>
> Me.
>
> Under radio crackle, Bill Davidsen was decoded as saying::
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >
> >> none none <throw_away_2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Seven years, fifteen different computers,
> >>> twenty-five different Linux distributions,
> >>> multiple types of cd burner (SCSI, IDE,
> >>> USB), and every version of cdrecord and
> >>> cdrtools I could find (both supplied with
> >>> the distribution and compiled by myself).
> >>>
> >>> cdrecord -vv dev=1,0 blank=all /path/to/some.iso
> >>>
> >>> NEVER works. I typically get something like:
> >>>
> >>> Performing OPC...
> >>> Blanking entire disk
> >>> cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
> >>> Blanking time: 1183.496s
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I never do this, and this may be the reason why nobody did complain
> >> before....
> >>
> >>
> > I didn't even know this was a supported operation... like you I've been
> > doing it in two steps, back to the days when my Phillips 2600 SCSI drive
> > was new stuff.
> >
>
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