CDR or CDRW Disks

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

It seems to me there are at least two different capacities available,
usually labeled in terms of minutes of audio. When I bought the 80
minute capacity disks there was a slightly smaller capacity available.
Maybe others have better information about this. But I know that disk 2
of the Slackware set is somewhat larger than the others, and required
the 80 minute size in my case.


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Zachary wrote:

> Hmmm.  Is the disc supposed to be 700MB?  My disc is only reported by Windows 
> at 650 or so.
> Erasing it completely doesn't help.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
> 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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