Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[Pavel Machek]

hi!

> > The linux kernel atapi layer makes a TEST UNIT READY and if the media
> > has changed the cdrom does return an ERR_STAT with a UNIT_ATTENTION
> > which means that the medium has changed. IF that this the case the
> > kernel flushes it's buffers.
> 
> So the drive ought to report media changed if it knowingly over wrote
> the table of contents, for instance.
> 

Why? Media did not change.

You would need cdrom to report media change on each write,
but that would break packet writing. We should fix
kernel/cdrecord, not break hw.

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