Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:41:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810190139250.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <19981017085100.15382@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, J Wunsch wrote: > As Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > I suspect I need to format the media but that command fails as well. > I don't think you can format an optical medium, at least i have yet to > see one where you can. They are hard-sectored. ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/C1716_scsi.pdf Page 79 "Format Unit Command (04H) Initializes the optical disk surface. An unformated Write-Once disk can be formatted only once." Anyhow, I've low level formatted these things before on an SGI and on a DOS box. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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