>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On 19 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Well, if you like -dummy in RAW mode to work, ask the SCSI standard
>> kommittee to change the standard for your needs....=
>Indeed the MMC standard says that the Test Write bit is only valid for
>TAO and DAO, but not for Raw writing. On the other hand, I have
>ignored this sentence and in practice test writes work very well even
>with raw writing. If you really want to be safe then a warning that the
>drive might ignore the -dummy option might be appropriate, but I know
>no drive that really ignores it. Do you?
Well I tested -dummy & RAW only with Plextor and got a vendor unique result
that not even is documented in the Plextor manual, so I never tried any other
drive with -dummy when using RAW mode.
J�rg
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