From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 19 8:54:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F4D15A46 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id RAA10299; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:34:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA60333; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:16:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199908191016.MAA60333@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive In-Reply-To: <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org> from Bruce Albrecht at "Aug 18, 1999 11:11:51 pm" To: bruce@zuhause.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:16:31 +0200 (CEST) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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