From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 19 1: 5: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A81150E4 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02054; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199908190802.BAA02054@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Bruce Albrecht , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:52:49 PDT." <199908190752.AAA52911@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:02:12 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : > 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. > I just happen to be writing another cd 8) mkisofs -R /mount/cdrom | cdrecord -blank=fast -v fs=10m speed=3 - Track 01: 597 MB written (fifo 100%).Total extents actually written = 311018 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1076001 Total directory bytes: 3112960 Path table size(bytes): 15778 Max brk space used 84a29c 311018 extents written (607 Mb) Track 01: 607 MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 636964864/636964864 (311018 sectors). Writing time: 2190.437s Fixating... Fixating time: 129.090s cdrecord: fifo had 10034 puts and 10034 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 9713 times full, min fill was 89%. This is like the third time that I writing pretty much the same image to the CD. Enjoy -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message