Hi, > Does the following make any sense at all?
Only in part. :)) Your media should be usable in growisofs or libburn without explicit preparations. They should be still ok after the dvd+rw-format runs. Just try to use them. BD-RE are like DVD-RAM usable as random access read-write disks. (DVD+RW and formatted DVD-RW alike.) They need to get formatted before use. Thus the term "blank" makes sense. But after being formatted, one can write and read to them like to a giant floppy disk. So "blanking" in the sense of re-use is not applicable to BD-RE. growisofs and libburn format blank BD-RE automatically on the first try to write them. So it is not needed to format them explicitely unless one wants a non-default size. Size may be varied by reserving more or less spare blocks. This command was appropriate for new BD-RE: > $ dvd+rw-format -format /dev/sr1 > * BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[email protected]>, version 7.1. > * 24.8GB BD media detected. > * formatting . But this outcome is not appropriate: > :-[ FORMAT UNIT failed with SK=5h/INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER > LIST]: Input/output error Well, the media state looks ok so far: > $ dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr1 > Mounted Media: 43h, BD-RE > Write Speed #0: 12.0x4495=53940KB/s (Gosh ! Is that true ?) > Write Speed #1: 2.0x4495=8990KB/s > Speed Descriptor#0: 00/12088319 [email protected]=8990kb/s > [email protected]=8990kb/s (Probably not) > formatted: 12088320*2048=24756879360 The default size. About 256 MB of spare blocks. This command made few sense but was obviously gracefully defaulted to -format: > $ dvd+rw-format -blank /dev/sr1 Next you were kept from re-formatting. I do not know how often one may format a media. Half a dozen size changes are ok, though. Re-formatting is likely to kill data on the media. > $ dvd+rw-format /dev/sr1 > * BD/DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <[email protected]>, version 7.1. > * 24.8GB BD media detected. > - media is not blank > - you have the option to re-run dvd+rw-format with: > -format=full to perform (lengthy) Full Certification; > -ssa[=none|default|max|XXX[GM]] > to eliminate or adjust Spare Area. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
