On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:43 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > > > At the risk of being personal and too specific , I am a diabetic, Every > > week I produce a list of my glucose readings. I save them to a floppy > > and put them into a filing cabinet. To be up to date I also place the > > file on a CD-RW (so we have a 700M CD with a single 400K file). Once out > > of every 10 times when I write to the CD it complains that the CD is no > > longer writable. Never mind that Fedora (as far as I know) has no > > program to format a CD-RW. And this is progress. No way. > > -- > > ======================================================================= > > You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is > > that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham, > > "The Circle" > > ======================================================================= > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Fedora does have a method of formatting a CD-RW and DVD-RWs, K3b will do > it for you if necessary and cdrecord and dvdrecord have CLI options to > do so. I've used them for a couple years now. As I said in a separate message I can find no way to have these programs format a CD+RW. An example execution line would help. -- Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
