Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

From: Mark Cooke (mpc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 13:25:26 EST


On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the
> user-space apps change to go both ways.

Hi Andre,

Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' -
I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi translation, and show the drive's
still working okay for blanking. One less variable in the soup to
worry about then.

Aside: Browsing through the cdrecord 10a4 source does flag a specific
note in the mmc driver about ATIP not being supported on the 7100, but
seems to suggest that a failure to read the ATIP data's non-fatal...

Mark

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