Re: BD-R formatting help
Hi, Matt!
> I'm monkeying around with the blu-ray drives again (though now it is a
> SATA interface) and I've come upon something that I don't quite
> understand.
>
> I am trying to make the spare area of a BD-R be something larger than
> the default. I was hoping to run something like:
>
> ./dvd+rw-format -ssa=4G /dev/dvd
>
> But when I execute this command, it says that it is invalid for the
> detected media.
This is not intentional. In other words it's a bug and it will be looked
into. Suggested code modification might be appropriate, but I'd rather
not say it without double-checking. In a course of few days. Meanwhile
please submit dvd+rw-mediainfo output (even garbled one you mentioned
you obtain if you don't reload media). cdrecord does not show format
descriptors.
> After making the above change, it then gets past this portion of the
> code and gets down to where the actual formatting is going to take
> place.
>
> I get this message:
>
> sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> Deferred sr00:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Format command failed
You indicated it's BDB2 firmware? Is it latest? We both know that there
is BZE6 available for SW-5582. Do you know how they number their
releases? For example is BZxx later than BDxx? What I'm implying
firmware upgrade might be due to make it work with arbitrary ... Cheers. A.
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