Hmmm. Is the disc supposed to be 700MB? My disc is only reported by Windows at 650 or so. Erasing it completely doesn't help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxx> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 1:40 AM Subject: Re: CDR or CDRW Disks > Wrong. You can reuse the entire CDRW a great many times. > I recently purchased a package of 10 CDRW's with 80 minute capacity from > a local business supply store for under $10.00. > > 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 >> > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (97% of Full) > Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
