[Pkg-libburnia-devel] BR-RE blank disk - Pioneer BDR-2208 - initial format fails

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

> As you will see below, it appears that
> you have a grip on the problem!

Meanwhile it appears as a bug of libburn.
Your drive announced that it would not do Full Certification
during a FORMAT UNIT command.

libburn has code to take this into respect. But obviously it
did not. So i will have to find out why.

Thank you for reporting the problem. I'll report back to the
list when i found the cause and a solution.


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Reasoning (see MMC-5 specs for background info):

When libburn examines the drive, it gets:

> GET CONFIGURATION
> 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 bc 00
> From drive: 444b
> ...
> 00 23 09 08 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...

This is the descriptor of the "Formattable" feature. Its fifth
byte 08 announces by its lower two bits neither Full Certification
nor Quick Certification.

On my LG GGC-H20 i get 
  00 23 05 08 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
which promises Full but no Quick Certification.

On my Optiarc BD-5300S there is no certification announced:
  00 23 09 08 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
But it nevertheless does a formatting run with the same optionsi
as you used.
So i will have to debug a -format run with this drive.

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Have a nice day :)

Thomas