Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Oct 16 2000, Mark Cooke wrote:
> > Yes but there is a way to do this directly now, the question is can the
> > user-space apps change to go both ways.
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> Is there any tool / test code that you know of to 'do this directly' -
> I'm wanting to try to avoid ade-scsi translation, and show the drive's
> still working okay for blanking.  One less variable in the soup to
> worry about then.

Yes, I have a tool in the UDF cvs source that you can use to
blank CD's for testing that bypasses ide-scsi. It can also do silly
packet type burns, just for testing purposes. So get the UDF cvs source
and compile the cdrwtool program.

jens
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