It is my understanding, that with CDR disks, you can write, but not erase. But with CDR/W disks, you can erase, but you don't get the space back, i.e., you cannot write over the data that has been erased, which seems little better than usless in most instances. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:16 PM Subject: Re: CDR or CDRW Disks Then I am assuming that this disk I have is CDRW, because I can erase the contents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:09 PM Subject: Re: CDR or CDRW Disks > You can not do data rewrites on CDRs. Write once, read many applies. > CDRWs can be used for this purpose. > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Zachary wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am wondering whether it would be possible to physically erase the >> contents of a CD, so as to convert it into a blank one. I have only 1 >> cdr disk, which is not enough to install Slackware Linux, unless I am >> mistaken. I just need one more disk, and am wondering whether I can >> either download a cD formatter program, or just have to go out and buy >> another disk. >> I'd rather not do that, as I have plenty of disks already. >> Thanks, >> Zachary _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
