Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:27:43 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive Message-ID: <199908190427.VAA00529@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:11:51 CDT." <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org>
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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. I could be wrong;nevertheless, last nite I made a couple of CDs over 500MB with "blank=fast" and it worked. -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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