Leaving a CD open

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 29 15:45:34 UTC 2008


John Bowden wrote:

> On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:05:57 Willis Taylor wrote:
>> Because I'm a disabled Veteran and a dime is very important to me.
>>
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> > Willis Taylor wrote:
>> >> Is there a way to leave a data CD open as there is in Nero to add to
>> >> it later?
>> >
>> >     With a blank CD-Rom costing about a dime, why?
>> >
> 
> There is an option in K3b to open or close a CD / DVD disk when burning.
> Don't forget that for every track you write to a disk there is a lead in
> and lead out over head. Off the top of my head its 20Mb.

Really?  Then I take back my suggestion that if you want to write 10MB to
disc daily, you can use the same one for months.  It'll only last a few
weeks :-)
-- 
derek





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