wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net (Wojciech Puchar) writes:
> 3) you won't be able to eject media. it you try to force it with eject
> command it makes things worse.
> 
> just read first block with dd if=/dev/rcd1d bs=2k count=1 of=/dev/null
> or any other command that will read data. this will force all
> unwritten block to be written.
> 
> now you can eject disc.

Maybe eject(1) needs to do a fsync(); or sync();sync(); ?

Or is the issue the buffers inside the dvd writer itself?  I had
assumed those buffers flush themselves continuously on an "as
bandwidth is available" basis.

-wolfgang
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