Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:52:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive Message-ID: <199908190752.AAA52911@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908180433.VAA11141@rah.star-gate.com> <199908180450.VAA42534@apollo.backplane.com> <14267.33799.686905.186515@celery.zuhause.org>
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: > 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.
Really? I'll have to mess with it some more. Maybe I had tried to
write more data then I thought in my last test.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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