From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 18 21:28:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19BD14DBD for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00529; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199908190427.VAA00529@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bruce Albrecht Cc: Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:11:51 CDT." <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:27:43 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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