Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:35:19 GMT | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased |
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Quote from mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=): > John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes: > > >> That's not what he said and, I assure you that if he unmounted > >> it there would not be any buffers to flush. Execute `man umount`. > > > > I think the original poster was referring to the cache on the device. > > > > 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 > > If that's the case, the drive is broken. We can't help that.
Is it actually a requirement for drives to support anything other than a full erase properly? Is the 'fast' erase valid per spec, or does it just happen to work on 99% of devices? Is this problem reproducable if a full erase is done instead of a fast erase?
I've added the original poster to the CC list.
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