Re: [linux-minidisc] Building himdformat against libscg on MacOSX

[Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:06:35AM +0200, Michael Karcher wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 21.05.2010, 23:47 +0200 schrieb Adrian Glaubitz:
> > Ok, it was set to 0x00 but that didn't work with the 1GB medium when I
> > tried. Are you sure that it shouldn't be:
> > 
> > * Format - 0x00
> > * Erase -  0x01
> > 
> > where "Format" works on 60/74/80 min media only and "Erase" works on
> > 1GB media as well?
> No. The Terms might be confusing, but this is how Sony called it in
> their library they linked into Hi-MD Music Transfer Software for the
> Mac. The idea of "erase" is that the traces of any Hi-MD structure are
> completely erased, and the idea of "format" is that the medium contains
> data in the right format to store Hi-MD tracks.
> 
> To add confusion, the operation executed by the "Format" command (C2/01)
> is named "Erase All" in the Walkman menu, and the operation executed by
> the "Erase" command (C2/00) is called "Format" in the walkman menu and
> also only available on classic media.

Ok, just to confirm. I just successfully formatted a HiMD with the
(C2/01) command on Linux. Now it's only MacOS that remains to be
tackled.

Adrian