From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 19 8: 4:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.sitaranetworks.com (apollo.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A17150B0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from loverso@sitara.net) Message-ID: <37BC1BFC.9750ECDF@sitara.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:00:12 -0400 From: "John R. LoVerso" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bruce Albrecht , Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive References: <199908180433.VAA11141@rah.star-gate.com> <199908180450.VAA42534@apollo.backplane.com> <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org> <199908190752.AAA52911@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 I think there's a little confusion here and I don't want to add to it. But... I thought it the case that a CDRW that is fully reformatted (taking 30 minutes; equivalent to blank=all?) can hold 650MB, while a CDRW that is quickly reformatted (to packet writing aka DirectCD-formatting; is this what blank=fast does?) can hold only about 500 MB. It doesn't matter how is on the disk before the quick format happens. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message