Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 16:38:39 EST


On Thu, Feb 05 2004, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Okay, we may be dealing with the buggy hardware at this point. Would
> > it make sense to tell the drive to flush it caches? If there's no
> > other possibility, we might want cdrecord to reset drive at the end of
> > blank and/or to make it eject...
>
> It's not the drive, it's the kernel. We have to tell the kernel to
> *flush* *it's* buffers when doing an umount. See my other posting.

Partly, I still think the drive should report media changed after
knowingly doing a TOC blank (or change). But see my other post, should
work.

--
Jens Axboe

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