On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:30:40 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
>> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but >> >> >> nothing >> >> >> >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> most >> >> >> or all of the > >> > > >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think >> >> > and eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple >> >> > of days ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of >> >> > blanks. I put a CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >> >> > >used k3b before. K3b opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and >> >> > miracle >of miracles, it asked if I knew that I didn't need >> >> > to erase the
I think it *is* expected behaviour. After all, you don't want it to erase anything without warning. I think you had a disk that is not finalized (do CD-RW disks finalize? I don't know) therefore it could append the file. There was nothing in what you were doing to make it suspect that it shouldn't do so.
Yes. Normally, one is asked, before data are deleted. I am not sure whether or not CD-RW media finalize (there's another word for that?). I think so, because they seem to have something done to them, after the data are written to the media.
I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems to me that that is what has happened, and is quite normal. Now if you have an iso downloaded anywhere you might try burning an image, and see if that asks you about deleting. I'll bet it does.
I'll Download an .iso and see if I am asked whether or not I want to erase the media before writing the .iso to it.