I'm not saying it's invald.. I'm saying I THOUGHT it was.. I mean, how many PC apps (Nero, yadda yadda) do you know do a blank before burning? (I haven't come across any, although I haven't specifically been looking..)
Me.
Under radio crackle, Ambrose Li was decoded as saying::
I'd disagree about its validity. Blanking a CDRW disc before writing sounded reasonable enough to me. I always thought that it didn't work because Linux was buggy.
(About my "Linux was buggy" comment: I started noticing this after mounting HFS CDROM's started causing kernel panics, and afterwards found out that this serious problem was caused by a bug in Linux that is not going to be fixed. As for whether the blanking-then-writing worked before, I *think* I have seen it work before but, judging from what others are writing, I likely didn't remember correctly.)
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Mike 'Fox' Morrey wrote:
Me neither. I know I had tried, and it didn't work, way before 1.0-final came out. I didn't complain because I figured that it wasn't valid - like you say, doing two steps at once..
Me.
Under radio crackle, Bill Davidsen was decoded as saying::
Joerg Schilling wrote:
none none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Seven years, fifteen different computers, twenty-five different Linux distributions, multiple types of cd burner (SCSI, IDE, USB), and every version of cdrecord and cdrtools I could find (both supplied with the distribution and compiled by myself).
cdrecord -vv dev=1,0 blank=all /path/to/some.iso
NEVER works. I typically get something like:
Performing OPC...
Blanking entire disk
cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out.
Blanking time: 1183.496s
I never do this, and this may be the reason why nobody did complain before....
I didn't even know this was a supported operation... like you I've been doing it in two steps, back to the days when my Phillips 2600 SCSI drive was new stuff.
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