Re: Packet writing issue on 2.6.15.1

[iSteve <isteve@rulez.cz>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:45:48 -0500
Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Hrm... the format appears to be failing with a seek error.  My guess as 
> to the cause of this is either bad media or a bad drive.  Are you sure 
> this drive can handle 80 min / 700 MB disks?

Yes, I'm very positive about it. This is Plextor Premium; it certainly can
handle 700, 800 and even larger (99m/1.2GiB) CDs, I'm burning my backups on it
on regular basis, too. I'll try to grab a few more CD-RWs tomorrow.

> I'm not sure this switch does what I think it does because I don't have 
> the source code in front of me, but after blanking try:
> 
> cdrwtool -m 259808
> 
> If that did what I think it does, it should attempt to format the disc, 
> but not all of it.  If the drive just doesn't like the outer edges, that 
> might work. 

Nope:

# cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrw -m 259808
using device /dev/cdrw
formatting 259808 blocks
4690KB internal buffer
setting write speed to 12x
wait_cmd: Input/output error
Command failed: 04 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - sense 05.64.00
format disc: Illegal seek


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 -- iSteve