HMMMM! That's a new one, I may have a CDRW in the
same condition. We need a CDRW analyzer! The cdrecord
does a pretty good job of identifying the CDRW even to
the point of knowing the company of manufacture.
Vern
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 17:09 +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> > Your cdrecord should have a -blank parameter for use of CD-RW,
> > shouldn't it?
>
> >From your mail (and others) I gather that I should 'cdrecord
> -blank dev=4,0' with all *fresh* CD-RWs before putting the first
> image on it.
>
> That sounds like 'blank' does some kind of lowlevel formatting
> on the CD-RW. But for putting raw images on it I do not need any
> formatted media, right?
>
> 2. Q: I had a CD-RW which was used under Windows before and I
> wanted to erase all contents with the -blank command. It never
> worked. After issueing this command on the CD-RW I could throw
> it away. It wasn't even useable under Win any more.
>
> So I did not dare to use CD-RWs under Linux again.
>
> wobo
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