On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>It already supports this
>>>
>>>On Linux ?
>
>>Jens Axboe sent me a URL for downloading cdrw blanking software
>>he wrote for Linux that uses ATAPI disconnect. I was erasing a
>>cd with cdrecord the other day and I tried to mount a CD in my
>>reader and got an Oops when cdrecord finished. The kernel is at
>>fault, but it sucked not being able to mount a CD because of
>>cdrecord blanking the RW disk.
>
>You may specify the IMMED bit in "long lasting" SCSI commands.
>The SCSI command then returns immediatly but you have to do active
>waiting for the end. Unfortunately firmware in ATAPI drives becomes
>worse and worse so waiting does not work as expected for many drives.
>For this reason I decided that the IMMED bit is not an option for
>cdrecord.
>
>>So, can we assume that cdrecord will also use disconnect in the
>>future?
>
>If there was real disconnect/reconnect, cdrecord doesn't need to care
>about because disconnect/reconnect is a property of the lowest tansport
>layer in the kernel.
Ok, thanks for the clarification.
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