On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> > > If you think it can be done give the command line to do it. For some > > reason people seem to have forgotten how a formatted floppy works. > > They've forgotten because floppies were too small and slow to be useful. > The modern replacement is the USB flash drives that you are starting > to see along with gum and mints at the grocery store checkout in gig+ sizes. > > You should be able to erase a cdrw with cdrecord blank=all or a dvd+rw > with cdrecord -format, but k3b should detect the need and do it > automatically if necessary. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx I will say this one more time then I will drop the subject. floppies , gum and mints cost about the same price. Flash Drives do not. It is easy to have a few floppies to carry small files for backup. I must have about 25 of them. I have no intention of buying 25 flash drives. The smallness and cheapness of floppies is the good thing about them. And no lets say it all together:"blanking and formatting are not the same thing" Anyone else is free to ignore floppies. I find them very useful. -- Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
