Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:16:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: bruce@zuhause.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive Message-ID: <199908191016.MAA60333@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org> from Bruce Albrecht at "Aug 18, 1999 11:11:51 pm"
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As Bruce Albrecht wrote ... > 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 have the same experience. Maybe someone into the physics of the media can explain what the pros-cons are as far as the media itself is concerned? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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