Problems creating RW discs in K3B

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 23:00, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > >As usual I am confused by this discussion. As far as I can see
> > >cdrecord, k3b and xcdroast can effectively use only CD-R disks.
> > >They can not format CD-RW disks as Windows software can do allowing
> > >you to use the CD just like you would use a hard drive in reading and
> > >writing to it. So why would anyone use the more expensive CD-RW disks
> > >on Linux systems?
> > >
> > >Does anyone have a different take on this matter?
> > 
> > I use CD-RW media for test releases, checking that bootable disks actually 
> > boot etc. and any other purpose that requires only a short lifetime for 
> > the burned CD. I can then re-use the CD-RW media and save wasting a 
> > write-once disc.
> > 
> What you say above is even more amazing. You are saying that you can
> write to a CD-RW in linux using one of the cd writing programs and
> somehow erase what you have written and use it now as a CD-RW cd
> writing and reading to it. How exactly do you remove what you have
> written the first time?

I use cdrecord blank=fast

See "cdrecord blank=help" for other options.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>