Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

[Amancio Hasty]

> 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.


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 Amancio Hasty
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