Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:20:53 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG> To: larry@marso.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrecord and caching issue Message-ID: <199812112120.WAA13091@qix.jmz.org> In-Reply-To: <19981211151343.B22555@marso.com> (larry@marso.com)
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>>>>> Larry S Marso writes: > I wrote a couple of trial cdrecord sessions using -dummy. > I then executed a third, real cdrecord session. It failed (fortunately, > before writing anything to the disk), complaining that "insufficient space > left on media". > I then executed a cdcontrol info, which reported that two previous sessions > were already recorded to the disk. In actual fact, the disk was still > blank; this I confirmed by shutting down and rebooting, then successfully > writing to the cdr. > So, there is some sort of caching going on that mistakenly thinks a -dummy > write is a real write. Might this not cause trouble? This is probably a problem specific to your drive, which does not not reset its internal TOC after a dummy write. Try to open/close the tray after a dummy write to reset it. This works with my CDD2600. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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