Re: Problems mounting DVD-RWs written with growisofs
Andy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> wrote:
> >>> Now I have to write a little wrapper script for growisofs to add
> >>> -use-the-force... to the command line generated by the frontend.
> >> Did you try whether growisofs does not use
> >> DAO automatically if the media is blanked fast ?
> >
> > You cannot reliably ask whether the media was blanked fast.
>
> It doesn't mean that you can't try. If given firmware tells difference
> between minimally and fully blanked media, then it tells you that
> *every* time, i.e. reliably. In other words it's one-time test for user,
> then [s]he knows that it works reliably or does
If you believe there is a way to identify this, you should tell us how.
> > blank=fast works only correctly if the medium was written on SAO mode before.
>
> I can't second this. To start with there is no such thing as SAO in
> DVD-R[W] context. SAO is a CD recording mode, which means that unit
> records session lead-in prior user data. There are only two DVD-RW
> Sequential recording modes: DAO and Incremental. In latter mode
this is your private interpretation
Jörg
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