As Bruce Albrecht wrote ...
> 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 have the same experience. Maybe someone into the physics of the media
can explain what the pros-cons are as far as the media itself is concerned?
Wilko
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