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

[Jack Dodds]

Hello Thomas,

OK, let me know if you need another test run.

If necessary I can build libburn and cdrskin to test a fix - however
this may have to wait for a week or two.

Jack



On 01/04/13 03:56 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 

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