On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
