Re: cdrecord: failure in auto-formatting DVD+RW Verbatim media on USB-TSSTcorp
Giulio Orsero <giulioo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:28:54 +0100, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
> (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
>
> >Giulio Orsero <giulioo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ==== System data
> >> OS: Linux 2.4.33
> >> cdrecord: 2.01.01a55
> >> Burner
> >> Vendor_info : 'TSSTcorp'
> >> Identifikation : 'CDDVDW SE-S224Q '
> >> Revision : 'TS01'
> >> Media (marketing name "DVD+RW Verbatim 4x")
> >> Manufacturer: 'MKM'
> >> Media type: 'A02'
> >>
> >> ==== Problem
> >> cdrecord won't automatically format maiden medium, it seems it doesn't even
> >> try (the messages are different, usually it says "..in real format mode..."
> >> or similar).
> >
> >From what your drive says: the medium is not maiden as it it not flagged
> >unformatted.
>
> But minfo says
> Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type
> 2295104 2048 0x00 Unformated or Blank Media
> 2295104 0 0x26 Reserved (0)
Sorry, it was too late and I did not see this.
Plese edit cdrecord/scsi_mmc.c line 1362 and change:
printf("Disk type: ");
if (is_cd) switch (dip->disk_type) {
case SES_DA_ROM: printf("CD-DA or CD-ROM"); break;
case SES_CDI: printf("CDI"); break;
case SES_XA: printf("CD-ROM XA"); break;
case SES_UNDEF: printf("undefined"); break;
default: printf("reserved"); break;
} else {
to:
printf("Disk type: ");
switch (dip->disk_type) {
case SES_DA_ROM: printf("CD-DA or CD-ROM"); break;
case SES_CDI: printf("CDI"); break;
case SES_XA: printf("CD-ROM XA"); break;
case SES_UNDEF: printf("undefined"); break;
default: printf("reserved %d", dip->disk_type); break;
} else {
and send the result from cdrecord -v -minfo for an unformatted medium that
causes the problem.
I remember that there was a problem with the old ricoh drives...
At least 7 years ago, media quality and DVD+RW media compatibility between different
drives has been very bad and I needed to add many workarounds in order to make
cdrecord behave nicely.
It may be that some of the workarounds should be removed today.
Jörg
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