On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:20 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>> I don't know whether I got a reply to my question of how you format
> >>
> >> a
> >>
> >>> CD-RW using gnomebaker?
> >>
> >> I don't think anyone managed to be sure he understood your question.
> >> I know I didn't. Please define "format a CDRW".
> >
> > Well its discouraging since I expalined it several times. I want to do
> > to the CD-RW the same thing you do when you formatted a floppy. Once it
> > is formatted you could mount it and use it like you use a hard drive.
> > Copy files to it using cp, remove files from it using rm, etc.
>
> The only media I know capable of this is DVD-RAM.
That was my original point. You can format CD-RW under windows and use
them under fedora but you can't format them under fedora.
Why not one might ask?
Because they don't need it? They are ready to be written to right out of the
box. OTOH, I just checked the latest k3b, and it has an erase cd-rw function
which I suspect is identical to what the winderz box actually does when the
format call is issued. But even that is optional since they can be
over-written at any time.
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