Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[John Bradford]

Quote from mru@xxxxxx (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=):
> John Bradford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> That's not what he said and, I assure you that if he unmounted
> >> it there would not be any buffers to flush. Execute `man umount`.
> >
> > I think the original poster was referring to the cache on the device.
> >
> > I.E.
> >
> > mount disc
> > view contents
> > unmount disc
> > erase disc - but don't erase the CD-R drive's cache of the media
> > mount disc
> > view old contents of the media from the CD-R drive's cache
> 
> If that's the case, the drive is broken.  We can't help that.

Is it actually a requirement for drives to support anything other than
a full erase properly?  Is the 'fast' erase valid per spec, or does it
just happen to work on 99% of devices?  Is this problem reproducable
if a full erase is done instead of a fast erase?

I've added the original poster to the CC list.

John.
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