Re: wrong capacities in optical drives

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"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My CD & DVD drives will not show actual drive capacities, they always
report everything as full. How can I fix this?

There is nothing to fix. CD & DVD drives don't typically show disc
capacity.

When you create a CD/DVD, the CD is usually closed, or finalized, after
writing (unless its a multi-session CD which I have done very little of).

When that CD/DVD disc is finalized, it is done, no more can be added, it
is
in essence full with no remaining space.

If you are using the XP burner software, the CD cannot be used again.
Other burner software will burn a new session to a CD. The old session
becomes unavailable. A new session can be burned until the total capacity
of the CD is used.
--
Ron Sommer

I don't know the situation with CD-RW/DVD-RW's and UDP packet writing,
that
may be different.


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