CDR or CDRW Disks

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I have heard they make 90 minute and 99 minute disks cdrs but don't know 
where to get these at.
----- 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,
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