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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive 
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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.


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