> >> >> - a broken drive. > >> >Again, since growisofs works, I doubt this, but perhaps cdrecord avails > >> >itself of some facility that growisofs ignores. Is this the case? In other > >> >words, WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error, > >> >while cdrecord is? Recall that cdrecord is fine with blank CD-Rs using the > >> >same drive. > >> > >> A possible reason may be a bug in growisofs.... > > >If growisofs didn't pay attention to the error code returned by the > >command in question, I can assure that the recording would have failed > >to start in some other way (or do I again know too little to assure > >that?) The reason why growisofs doesn't get stuck on this is because it > >doesn't try to squeeze the unit for every bit of information (most > >likely partially bogus in this particular case), but asks only for > >information relevant for the intended purpose. As I can assure that this > >is actually intentional behaviour, it can't be classified as a bug. Yes, > >it hides/avoids bugs in unit firmware and possibly Linux USB transport, > >but it's not a coincidence or "lucky guess," but a result of > >consideration which so to say paid off. A. > > Cdrecord does not squeeze the drive....
Did I say that cdrecord "squeezes the drive"? No! If I wanted to say that, I'd say "Unlike cdrecord, growisofs..." But I said nothing of that sort! I said that growisofs asks only for information I consider required for intended purpose in a colorful way. I was basically answering Thomas' question. Thomas! Did I answer the question "WHY would growisofs either not have or not be stopped by this error?" I also tried to point out that I don't share the opinion that growisofs success is result of bug. > it just does what the SCSI standard > documents: Ask the drive how many bytes it is willing to provide and later > retrieve them. Good for cdrecord. > You did not answer if growisofs always checks the SCSI Status byte. There was no question "if growisofs always checks the SCSI Status byte" [in fact I fail to find any question posed by you in previous post]. But I think this unasked question was indirectly answered. Indeed, doesn't "if growisofs didn't pay attention to the error code returned by the command in question, [it would work at all]" mean "growisofs does pay attention"? A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
