On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> There are 2 ways of doing it, (AFAIK)
>
> 1/ you format the CDRW using a special format that allows you to use it just
> like a 'big' floppy, the downside of this is that it is very very slow (and
> I don't know how to do it under Linux)
That's called packet writing. I wouldn't waste my time unless you
regularly need incremental writes, and even then you might be better just
using multiple sessions.
> 2/ You burn it jsut as a standard CDR but make sure you do it as a
> multi-session disk so taht you can add more data to it later, then when you
> want to re-use the CDRW you just erase it and start over again.
That's not exactly true. You can write a cdrw as anything you'd like
(multisession, single session, anything) and then just erase it and start
over. There is no need to write it multisession unless you need to record
more data to it later before you erase it.
It's not a random-write media like a harddrive, if that's what Stephen was
asking. You burn it just like a normal disc and when you want to re-write
it you must erase it and then it's like a blank cd-r again. All of the
incremental-writing options available for normal cdrs can be used on cdrw,
namely packet writing and multisession writes.
I hope this answers your question.
-j
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