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SubjectRe: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)
On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > I if cdrecord bypassed the sg driver and spoke to the
> > cdrom driver directly. I know the CDROM_SEND_PACKET
> > ioctl() is in place for lk 2.4 but from which version
> > has it been functional in the lk 2.2 series?
>
> But the write command is not included in any source tree yet, and it works.

No but you could do WRITE_XX through the CDROM_SEND_PACKET
stuff, and I have done just that before.

> This will be fun when it is released.
> Imagine direct read/write access to DVD regardless of filesystems.
> It should also do CD-RW's, but not tested.

Beware, cd-rw is quite different and not remotely as simple to support
as DVD-RAM.

jens
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