Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type
> >> - a broken drive.
> >Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails
> >itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other
> >words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error,
> >while cdrecord is? Recall that cdrecord is fine with blank CD-Rs using the
> >same drive.
>
> A possible reason may be a bug in growisofs....
If growisofs didn't pay attention to the error code returned by the
command in question, I can assure that the recording would have failed
to start in some other way (or do I again know too little to assure
that?) The reason why growisofs doesn't get stuck on this is because it
doesn't try to squeeze the unit for every bit of information (most
likely partially bogus in this particular case), but asks only for
information relevant for the intended purpose. As I can assure that this
is actually intentional behaviour, it can't be classified as a bug. Yes,
it hides/avoids bugs in unit firmware and possibly Linux USB transport,
but it's not a coincidence or "lucky guess," but a result of
consideration which so to say paid off. A.
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