Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:19:01 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased |
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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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