On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:16 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Will Trives wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > Yannick does it work ok for you when you try to blank a dvd+rw disc ? > > Mine no longer jams up the drive now but it does say that the media or > > drive does not support blanking. I'm thinking its either because these > > discs just do multisession so this is what was meant to happen all along > > or there's still something going on. > > Does the kernel complain about anything? > Nope. > 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 is the media info after the format dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 INQUIRY: [BENQ ][DVD DD DW1640 ][BSRB] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Ah, DVD+RW Current Write Speed: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #0: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Write Speed #1: 2.4x1385=3324KB/s GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE: Write Performance: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s@[0 -> 264671] Speed Descriptor#0: 00/264671 R@xxxxxxxx=7181KB/s W@xxxxxxxx=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#1: 00/264671 R@xxxxxxxx=7181KB/s W@xxxxxxxx=3324KB/s READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]: Media Book Type: 00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0] Media ID: MKM/A02 Legacy lead-out at: 264672*2KB=542048256 READ DISC INFORMATION: Disc status: complete Number of Sessions: 1 State of Last Session: complete Number of Tracks: 1 BG Format Status: suspended READ FORMAT CAPACITIES: formatted: 264672*2048=542048256 26h(0): 2295104*2048=4700372992 READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]: Track State: complete Track Start Address: 0*2KB Free Blocks: 0*2KB Track Size: 2295104*2KB FABRICATED TOC: Track#1 : 14@0 Track#AA : 17@2295104 Multi-session Info: #1@0 READ CAPACITY: 2295104*2048=4700372992 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html