Mentioned in man page the classification of BD-R POW as unsuitable medium state

xorriso/xorriso.info

@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ unformatted by -blank "deformat".
 Regular files and block devices are handled as overwritable media.
 Pipes and other writeable file types are handled as blank multi-session
 media.
+The program growisofs formats by default BD-R to be pseudo-overwritable
+(POW). xorriso will classify them as
+Media current: is unsuitable , is POW formatted
+and will refuse to write to them or to obtain multi-session information
+from them.
 
    These media can assume several states in which they offer different
 capabilities.
@@ -282,9 +287,9 @@ character device.  E.g.
 By default xorriso will try to map the given address to /dev/hd* and
 /dev/sr*.  The command -scsi_dev_family can redirect the mapping from sr
 to scd or sg.  The latter does not suffer from the concurrency problems
-which plague /dev/sr of Linux kernels since version 3.  But it does not
-yield the same addresses which are used by mount(8) or by open(2) for
-read(2).
+which plagued /dev/sr of Linux kernels since version 3 up to 5.5.  But
+it does not yield the same addresses which are used by mount(8) or by
+open(2) for read(2).
 On FreeBSD the device files have names like
 -dev /dev/cd0
 On NetBSD:
@@ -5831,7 +5836,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * ACL, _definition:                      Extras.              (line  50)
 * APM block size:                        Bootable.            (line 424)
 * APM, _definition:                      Extras.              (line  42)
-* Appendable media, _definition:         Media.               (line  38)
+* Appendable media, _definition:         Media.               (line  43)
 * Appended Filesystem Image, -append_partition: Bootable.     (line 433)
 * Appended partition, in APM:            Bootable.            (line 291)
 * Appended partition, in MBR or GPT:     Bootable.            (line 284)
@@ -5840,7 +5845,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * Backup, enable fast incremental, -disk_dev_ino: Loading.    (line 256)
 * Backup, enable features, -for_backup:  Loading.             (line 215)
 * Backup, scdbackup checksum tag, -scdbackup: Emulation.      (line 179)
-* Blank media, _definition:              Media.               (line  29)
+* Blank media, _definition:              Media.               (line  34)
 * Blank, format, Immed bit, -use_immed_bit: SetWrite.         (line 457)
 * Blind growing, _definition:            Methods.             (line  41)
 * Bootability, control, -boot_image:     Bootable.            (line  75)
@@ -5853,7 +5858,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * Character Set, of terminal, -local_charset: Charset.        (line  57)
 * Character Set, _definition:            Charset.             (line   6)
 * CHRP partition, _definition:           Bootable.            (line 296)
-* Closed media, _definition:             Media.               (line  44)
+* Closed media, _definition:             Media.               (line  49)
 * Comment, #:                            Scripting.           (line 156)
 * Control, signal handling, -signal_handling: Exception.      (line  66)
 * Create, new ISO image, _definition:    Methods.             (line   7)
@@ -6101,6 +6106,7 @@ File: xorriso.info,  Node: ConceptIdx,  Prev: CommandIdx,  Up: Top
 * Timestamps, set in ISO image, -alter_date_r: Manip.         (line 174)
 * Tree, disk, traverse, -findx:          Navigate.            (line  91)
 * Tree, ISO, traverse and alter, -find:  CmdFind.             (line   7)
+* Unsuitable media states, _definition:  Media.               (line  25)
 * UTF-16, for Joliet paths, -compliance: SetWrite.            (line 114)
 * Verify, check blocks, -check_media:    Verify.              (line  21)
 * Verify, compare ISO and disk file, -compare: Navigate.      (line 131)
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