On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Aaron Konstam wrote:
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> If you think it can be done give the command line to do it. For some
> reason people seem to have forgotten how a formatted floppy works.
They've forgotten because floppies were too small and slow to be useful.
The modern replacement is the USB flash drives that you are starting
to see along with gum and mints at the grocery store checkout in gig+ sizes.
You should be able to erase a cdrw with cdrecord blank=all or a dvd+rw
with cdrecord -format, but k3b should detect the need and do it
automatically if necessary.
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Les Mikesell
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I will say this one more time then I will drop the
subject. floppies ,
gum and mints cost about the same price. Flash Drives do not. It is easy
to have a few floppies to carry small files for backup. I must have
about 25 of them. I have no intention of buying 25 flash drives. The
smallness and cheapness of floppies is the good thing about them.
And no lets say it all together:"blanking and formatting are not the
same thing"
Anyone else is free to ignore floppies. I find them very useful.
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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net