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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:46:43
Message-Id: 51dd2d76.VANq75NEFWpCcLYJ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99% by Thomas Schmitt
1 Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@×××.net> wrote:
2
3 > My proposal is to fix and test growisofs.
4
5 Well, growisofs is unmaintained since 5 years. The question is whether such a
6 change would be suffucuent or whether there are many more problem (see the mode
7 select problem I mentioned).
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9 > Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de wrote:
10 > > has many places where is returns the unly slightly modified result of a SCSI
11 > > mode sense operation while running a SCSI mode select operation. As it only
12 > > slightly modifies the received data instead of constructing SCSI standard
13 > > compliant data, these mode select operations do not always have the desired
14 > > effect.
15 >
16 > How else should one learn the current settings in order _not_
17 > to change those which are non-changeable ?
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19 I recommend you to read the SCSI standard and to have a look at what growisofs
20 actually does. I know that the code is hard to read, so it is easy to overlook
21 the problems...
22
23 Jörg
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