CDR or CDRW Disks

[Luke Davis]

That isn't true.  Well, I suppose it depends upon how you erace it.  A 
full blank (the slow kind, which is a format, I believe), recovers 
everything.  The fast type, only deletes the table of contents, and other 
small attributes.  I still think, that even in the latter method, you 
recover all of the space, or at least most of it.

Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but the above is from experience.

  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
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>
> 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
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>
>> 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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