Re: kernel errors

[Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>]

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i wrote:
>>> > If you have some blank optical medium, then try whether the emitter of
>>> > the read attempt can be discouraged if the drive is perceived as offering
>>> > just one block of 2048 bytes.
>>
>> Richmond wrote:
>>> I don't know how to do that. Do you mean make a DVD with 1 block of data?
>>
>> Just put in a blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, or unformatted blank DVD-RW.
>> The size perception will change to
>>   VENDOR   MODEL                  SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC
>>   HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F  2048    2048    2048
>>
>> Pull it out again, and this state will persist until you put in a medium
>> which is readable, or until you reboot.
>>
>
> I put in a blank DVD+RW.
>
> lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr*
> VENDOR   MODEL                  SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC
> HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F  2048    2048    2048
>
> It has stayed like this after I removed it.

I tried this on the same PC, but OpenSUSE 15.2, kernel 5.3 and putting
the blank disk in did not change the values, it still showed 512.