Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> writes: > "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> i wrote: >>> > If you have some blank optical medium, then try whether the emitter of >>> > the read attempt can be discouraged if the drive is perceived as offering >>> > just one block of 2048 bytes. >> >> Richmond wrote: >>> I don't know how to do that. Do you mean make a DVD with 1 block of data? >> >> Just put in a blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, or unformatted blank DVD-RW. >> The size perception will change to >> VENDOR MODEL SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC >> HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F 2048 2048 2048 >> >> Pull it out again, and this state will persist until you put in a medium >> which is readable, or until you reboot. >> > > I put in a blank DVD+RW. > > lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr* > VENDOR MODEL SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC > HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F 2048 2048 2048 > > It has stayed like this after I removed it.
I tried this on the same PC, but OpenSUSE 15.2, kernel 5.3 and putting the blank disk in did not change the values, it still showed 512.
