I'd disagree about its validity. Blanking a CDRW disc before writing sounded reasonable enough to me. I always thought that it didn't work because Linux was buggy.
(About my "Linux was buggy" comment: I started noticing this after mounting HFS CDROM's started causing kernel panics, and afterwards found out that this serious problem was caused by a bug in Linux that is not going to be fixed. As for whether the blanking-then-writing worked before, I *think* I have seen it work before but, judging from what others are writing, I likely didn't remember correctly.) On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Mike 'Fox' Morrey wrote: > Me neither. I know I had tried, and it didn't work, way > before 1.0-final came out. I didn't complain because I > figured that it wasn't valid - like you say, doing two > steps at once.. > > Me. > > Under radio crackle, Bill Davidsen was decoded as saying:: > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > >> none none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> Seven years, fifteen different computers, > >>> twenty-five different Linux distributions, > >>> multiple types of cd burner (SCSI, IDE, > >>> USB), and every version of cdrecord and > >>> cdrtools I could find (both supplied with > >>> the distribution and compiled by myself). > >>> > >>> cdrecord -vv dev=1,0 blank=all /path/to/some.iso > >>> > >>> NEVER works. I typically get something like: > >>> > >>> Performing OPC... > >>> Blanking entire disk > >>> cdrecord: faio_wait_on_buffer for writer timed out. > >>> Blanking time: 1183.496s > >>> > >> > >> > >> I never do this, and this may be the reason why nobody did complain > >> before.... > >> > >> > > I didn't even know this was a supported operation... like you I've been > > doing it in two steps, back to the days when my Phillips 2600 SCSI drive > > was new stuff. > > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Mike 'Fox' Morrey - Noble Systems > Director of Mad Science Programming > Head of the Spontaneous Data Generation Department > -> Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. <- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]