Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type
>From: Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se>
>> I just did run a test that verifies that the 708 in fact returns 36 bytes.
>> So the problem is definitely caused by a Linux driver bug.
>>
>> I tend to believe that growisofs just does not check the SCSI status
>> byte
>Quoting myself. "Under Linux kernel 2.4 growisofs counts on sr_mod to
>check the status byte." Clarifying note. Under 2.4 growisofs counts on
>sr_mod to check the status byte and terminate corresponding ioctl with
>error code. Does growisofs check for return value? Yes.
Sorry, you repeat useless statements :-(
The _only_ sense I can take out of your repeated try to avoid a clear answer is:
growisofs does _not_ check whether the status byte is != 0
So it is obvious that growisofs only works because it does not check whether
the command encountered a problem.
Jörg
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