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

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Thomas Schmitt
2021-09-25 10:51:21 +02:00
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@@ -299,6 +299,15 @@ They can be made unformatted by -blank "deformat".
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Regular files and block devices are handled as overwritable media.
Pipes and other writeable file types are handled as blank multi-session media.
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@cindex Unsuitable media states, _definition
The program growisofs formats by default BD-R to be pseudo-overwritable (POW).
xorriso will classify them as
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Media current: is unsuitable , is POW formatted
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and will refuse to write to them or to obtain multi-session information from
them.
@c man .PP
@sp 1
These media can assume several states in which they offer different
@@ -437,9 +446,9 @@ the path of their block device or of their generic character device. E.g.
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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).
The latter does not suffer from the concurrency problems 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).
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On FreeBSD the device files have names like
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