From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 18 22:42:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21418 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21413 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:42:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA09107; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:41:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:41:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Joerg Wunsch cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange error In-Reply-To: <19981017085100.15382@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, J Wunsch wrote: > As Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > I suspect I need to format the media but that command fails as well. > I don't think you can format an optical medium, at least i have yet to > see one where you can. They are hard-sectored. ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/C1716_scsi.pdf Page 79 "Format Unit Command (04H) Initializes the optical disk surface. An unformated Write-Once disk can be formatted only once." Anyhow, I've low level formatted these things before on an SGI and on a DOS box. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message