On 9/5/07, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I tried that, coding an asterisk, > and that when TRACKWRITE discovered that the disk was not "fresh" > it again refused to write over the evident prior content. > > Memory could be fading, Rob, so I'll have to re-check this.
Then Rob van der Heij wrote: > Correct. The * is not a "don't care" but means "there is no label" > so my example pipeline shows how to read R3 on the first track (if any) > and extract the label. This lets you deliberately aim for your own foot. It all comes back now! Yep ... "been there ; done that". I tried to detect any prior label, with a scheme like you advised, and got mixed results. Did not have time to figure out why and when. The solution of formatting the target is not all that bad: It only formats the first cylinder, so there is then a known label which will get obliterated. -- R;
