CDR or CDRW Disks

[Joseph C. Lininger]

There are two capasities of CD. Some are 650 MB, and some are 700 MB. Not 
all drives can read the 700 MB discs, but if your's is at least reasonably 
new you should be able to read them with no problem.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: CDR or CDRW Disks


> 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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