From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Will Trives <will@trivescon.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes]
	libata:	update	atapi_eh_request_sense() such that lbam/lbah contains buffer
	size
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:50:25 +1100
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I'm no expert but it might have something to do with the disc supporting
that incremental stuff, so you don't need to blank the disc the
traditional way.

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:38 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Will Trives wrote:
> >> This drive or media does not support the 'BLANK media' command
> >>> wodim: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
> >>> wodim: Some drives do not support all blank types.
> >>> wodim: Try again with wodim blank=all.
> >> wodim suggests "blank=all", does it work?
> >>
> > Nope same thing happens.
> > 
> > "dvd+rw-format /dev/sr0 -force"  Works ok though.
> 
> This looks like a wodim or drive/media problem and for some reason wodim
> thinks that the media can't be blanked.  Hmmm.. why do you need -force
> to dvd+rw-format?  What happens if you don't use -force?
>