That isn't true. Well, I suppose it depends upon how you erace it. A full blank (the slow kind, which is a format, I believe), recovers everything. The fast type, only deletes the table of contents, and other small attributes. I still think, that even in the latter method, you recover all of the space, or at least most of it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but the above is from experience. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Glenn at home wrote: > 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 at hotmail.com> > 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 at shellworld.net> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
