burning CD-RWs
 

OK. Ive searched and I havent been able to find anything, probobly because of the generic words that I use.

Anyway, my CD Burner works fine for reading/writing CD-Rs.

How do I burn a CDRW . I have a stack of unformatted CD-RWs, and I dont know how to format, and burn them.

I realize that they will probobly only be viewable/writable by Linux, but thats ok.

I have K3B and X-CD-Roast and I only saw options for erasing CD-RWs, and not burning them.

Is it possible to have them burn like in Windows, via drag 'n drop, or at least be able to "multisession", so I can keep using it.


Thanks,
Contrasutra.

You use a CDRW exactly like a CDR, that's why you haven't seen any settings - there are none!

Just blank the CDRW, then use it like a CDR.

It will be usable in any appropriate drive, the OS you use has nothing to do with it.

HTH
Steve

Should I use Muti-session burning? Are there any other settings I should be aware of.

The CD-RW mode you're after is 'packet writing', which distinguishes it from CD-R. It seems that support for this is in its infancy in Linux, but some console-based development is reasonably mature. This means that Drag & Drop is probably not possible yet within a GUI. For more info, have a look at the CD Packet Writing Project for Linux here:

http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/

and the Linux UDF project here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf

As Steve said, you can use a CD-RW exactly as you would a CD-R, with the added benefit that you can erase it and start again, which you can not do with a CD-R. Granted, this is not as flexible as Drag & Drop using UDF (as with Windows), but it's still better than burning through CD-Rs. It would seem that Drag & Drop is not too far off though.

Geoff.

Thanks, that clears everything up. Ill probobly be just writing to the CDRW normally, and then erasing it. Since thats most convienent for what Im using it for.