Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:11:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive Message-ID: <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org> In-Reply-To: <199908180450.VAA42534@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908180433.VAA11141@rah.star-gate.com> <199908180450.VAA42534@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon writes: > And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. In my experience, this is not true. I have used blank=fast on a CDRW that has over 500 MB written, and then written another 500 MB without a problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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