From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] libata: update atapi_eh_request_sense() such that lbam/lbah contains buffer size Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:38:56 +0900 Message-ID: <475F9E20.4000800@gmail.com> References: <475F51AE.1010305@gmail.com> <1197446739.3467.4.camel@Athas> <475F98C9.6080804@gmail.com> <1197447366.3467.10.camel@Athas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]:5376 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756381AbXLLIjE (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:39:04 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so136955rvb.1 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:39:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1197447366.3467.10.camel@Athas> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Will Trives Cc: Jeff Garzik , IDE/ATA development list , yannick.dirou@axetic.com, Alan Cox 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? -- tejun