I've just run into this myself with a Bluray drive: $ uname -a Linux hilfy 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-3 (2019-05-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ smartctl -i /dev/cdrom smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-5-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: HL-DT-ST Product: BD-RE BH16NS55 Revision: 1.02 User Capacity: 24,220,008,448 bytes [24.2 GB] Logical block size: 2048 bytes Device type: CD/DVD The workflow with me was: - install brand new drive - burn an image to the drive - attempt to verify the image - drive only returns the first 1073741312 bytes of data, causing the verification to fail This then resulted in me panicing that my brand new drive was faulty! Is this an important enough bug to warrant having the packet driver stuff disabled by default? I never heard of anyone who uses it, and I've tried and failed myself; and the failure mode is pretty severe (non-CD writable optical media simply fails to work). -- ┌─── http://www.cowlark.com ─── │ "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my │ telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out │ how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup
