From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 30 07:04:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18728 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:04:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from second.dialup.access.net (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18720 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larry@marso.com) Received: (from larry@localhost) by second.dialup.access.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA07019 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:03:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from larry) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:03:12 -0500 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which CD-R to get Message-ID: <19981030100311.B6971@marso.com> References: <199810292334.SAA32684@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.13i In-Reply-To: <199810292334.SAA32684@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:22:51PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:22:51PM -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: > > RW media is STILL too damn expensive and WAY too much trouble. You > have to erase the whole stinking thing and start over. Why? Write-once media is $1 a piece ... and you get over 650MBs. Re-Writable media is less than $5 a piece. I've had to erase and start over with my RW's several times, getting the hang of things. But once you have the procedures down, you can write successive sessions on an ISO-9660 multisession format CD quite easily, filling up every last megabyte. And it's all available in a consolidated directory. Also, I understand that CD media measures it's lifetime in decades, not months/years. Best regards -- Larry S. Marso larry@marso.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message