I got over the xcdroast reboot problem. There was clue on the xcdroast website that Debian distros might have trouble with ATIP sensing and to run xcdroast with the -a option to bypass that. It worked.xcdroast -a Disable additional scans for CD-Writers or CD-Readers. In addi-
tion to the usual SCSI transport support (generic scsi), X-CD-
Roast also supports the experimental ATA-transport of the latest
linux kernels. If you set this option then this extra support
will be disabled.
New problem. I can't blank a DVD+RW disk. I get the following error
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
I've tried this with dvd+rw tools as well as xcdroast. I get the same error. The first time I used xcdroast to burn a data disk (approximately 3GB of data), it formatted fine and seemed to burn fine, but stopped at 704MB. It thought it was a CD even though I set the media capacity to 4.7GB. Now I can't blank the disk to try again.
perhaps ,
cdrecord blank=all
blank=type
Blank a CD-RW and exit or blank a CD-RW before writing. The
blanking type may be one of:
help Display a list of possible blanking types.
all Blank the entire disk. This may take a long time.
fast Minimally blank the disk. This results in erasing
the PMA, the TOC and the pregap.
track Blank a track.
unreserve Unreserve a reserved track.
trtail Blank the tail of a track.
unclose Unclose last session.
session Blank the last session.
Not all drives support all blanking types. It may be necessary to use
blank=all if a drive reports a specified command as being invalid. If
used together with the -force flag, this option may be used to blank
CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be blanked. Note that you may need to
specify blank=all because some drives will not continue with certain
types of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that cdecord does it's best if the
-force flag is used but it finally depends on the drive's firmware
whether the blanking operation will succeed or not.
see man cdrecord for all the other options, device, speed, etc etc.
John
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