Re: cdrecord: failure in auto-formatting DVD+RW Verbatim media on USB-TSSTcorp

[Giulio Orsero <giulioo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:31:35 +0100, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
(Joerg Schilling) wrote:

>This is why cdrecord does not auto-format the medium. 
>Your drive returns an incorrect disk type identifyer.
>see drv_dvdplus.c:
>
>        if (profile == 0x001A) { 
>                dsp->ds_flags |= DSF_DVD_PLUS_RW;       /* This is a DVD+RW */ 
>                if (dip->disk_status == DS_EMPTY &&     /* Unformatted      */ 
>                    dip->disk_type == SES_UNDEF) {      /* Not a CD         */ 
>This way:
>        if (profile == 0x001A) { 
>                dsp->ds_flags |= DSF_DVD_PLUS_RW;       /* This is a DVD+RW */ 
>                if (dip->disk_status == DS_EMPTY) {     /* Unformatted      */ 
>

I can confirm the above change fixes the issue with the USB TSSTcorp burner.

Thanks.
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giulioo@pobox.com