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

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Giulio Orsero <giulioo@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for the feedback.

I changed the code to now only emit a warning in case the drive return illegal 
data.

Jörg

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