Giulio Orsero <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:28:54 +0100, [email protected]
> (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
>
> >Giulio Orsero <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> ==== System data
> >> OS: Linux 2.4.33
> >> cdrecord:  2.01.01a55
> >> Burner 
> >>    Vendor_info    : 'TSSTcorp'
> >>    Identifikation : 'CDDVDW SE-S224Q '
> >>    Revision       : 'TS01'
> >> Media (marketing name "DVD+RW Verbatim 4x")
> >>    Manufacturer:    'MKM'
> >>    Media type:      'A02'
> >>    
> >> ==== Problem
> >> cdrecord won't automatically  format maiden medium, it seems it doesn't 
> >> even
> >> try (the messages are different, usually it says "..in real format mode..."
> >> or similar).
> >
> >From what your drive says: the medium is not maiden as it it not flagged
> >unformatted.
>
> But minfo says
>     Capacity  Blklen/Sparesz.  Format-type  Type
>      2295104             2048         0x00  Unformated or Blank Media
>      2295104                0         0x26  Reserved (0)

Sorry, it was too late and I did not see this.

Plese edit cdrecord/scsi_mmc.c line 1362 and change:

        printf("Disk type: "); 
        if (is_cd) switch (dip->disk_type) { 
 
        case SES_DA_ROM:        printf("CD-DA or CD-ROM");      break; 
        case SES_CDI:           printf("CDI");                  break; 
        case SES_XA:            printf("CD-ROM XA");            break; 
        case SES_UNDEF:         printf("undefined");            break; 
        default:                printf("reserved");             break; 
        } else { 


to:

        printf("Disk type: "); 
        switch (dip->disk_type) { 
 
        case SES_DA_ROM:        printf("CD-DA or CD-ROM");      break; 
        case SES_CDI:           printf("CDI");                  break; 
        case SES_XA:            printf("CD-ROM XA");            break; 
        case SES_UNDEF:         printf("undefined");            break; 
        default:                printf("reserved %d", dip->disk_type);          
   break; 
        } else { 

and send the result from cdrecord -v -minfo for an unformatted medium that 
causes the problem.

I remember that there was a problem with the old ricoh drives...

At least 7 years ago, media quality and DVD+RW media compatibility between 
different
drives has been very bad and I needed to add many workarounds in order to make 
cdrecord behave nicely.

It may be that some of the workarounds should be removed today.

Jörg

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