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Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.

From	"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R.
Date	2018-11-06 21:40 +0100
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Hi,

i wrote:
> >   $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
> > which shall pull in the tray and wait until the drive is ready, does not
> > work any more.

Dan Ritter wrote:
> Is this approximately equivalent to `eject -t` ?

Yes. And equivalently broken. Only burn programs still do wait for the
drive to become ready, because they rely on the sr driver only for a
few ioctls(), especially SG_IO, which performs SCSI command transactions.

Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. peter@easthope.ca - 2018-11-06 18:50 +0100
  Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-06 20:30 +0100
    Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-06 20:50 +0100
      Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-06 21:10 +0100
        Re: Archiving content of a directory on a DVD-R. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-11-06 21:40 +0100

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