Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

[John R. LoVerso]

> > 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

I think there's a little confusion here and I don't want to add to it.  But...

I thought it the case that a CDRW that is fully reformatted (taking 30 minutes;
equivalent to blank=all?) can hold 650MB, while a CDRW that is quickly
reformatted (to packet writing aka DirectCD-formatting; is this what blank=fast
does?) can hold only about 500 MB.  It doesn't matter how is on the disk before
the quick format happens.

John


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