Re: Porblems creating RW discs in K3B

From: D. D. Brierton (darren_at_dzr-web.com)
Date: 10/20/04

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:22:42 +0100

    On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:53, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:

    > As usual I am confused by this discussion. As far as I can see
    > cdrecord, k3b and xcdroast can effectively use only CD-R disks.
    > They can not format CD-RW disks as Windows software can do allowing
    > you to use the CD just like you would use a hard drive in reading and
    > writing to it. So why would anyone use the more expensive CD-RW disks
    > on Linux systems?
    >
    > Does anyone have a different take on this matter?

    Well cdrecord et al can *blank* a CD-RW disk so that you can use it
    again. That is a very good reason to use CD-RW media.

    At the moment UDF formatted discs that can be treated like a hard drive
    are not supported but I believe support is coming.

    Best, Darren 

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