Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

[Tomas Zvala <tomas@zvala.cz>]

Martin Povolný wrote:

>>>>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
>>>>        
>>>>
>
>That's it exactly.
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>
So after all my (s)wag was correct :)

So I took a quick look through ATAPI specification (I have to say I'm a 
user not a developer) and found nothing that would seem to flush that 
damn cache. So the problem is that some CD-R drives (probably the older 
ones) expect you to eject CD after burning (even a buffer/cache clearing 
after burn would seem logical to me) and there is nothing you can do 
about it (except buying different drive). Unfortunately it is not a 
kernel or cdrecord issue (if it was it could have been fixed:) ). I 
guess you'll just have to do with ejecting :). Sorry.


Tomas Zvala