said: 
Steven 
>I suspect he assumed you knew how to search for the word blank in the 
>cdrecord manual.  In this case, you probably want to use: 
>  cdrecord -blank=fast 
    CMD file made of the above command. 
>This will result in an empty CD-RW with an open session. 
>The docs will explain the other variants. 
>>     Sooo, my 3 or 4 attempts at burning a CDR\W have all failed. I don't 
>>know if it is because I have not "" blanked "" the media; OR because my 
>>ISO file is TOO large??? 
>Probably the former.  See below. 
>>  1T speed low:  4 1T speed high: 10 
>This says you should choose a speed between 4 and 10 for this media. 
>>Drive current speed: 10 
>>Drive default speed: 10 
>>Drive max speed    : 10 
>>Selected speed     : 4 
>You are attempting to burn at 4X. 
     Yup, that's me!  Slow speed Don. 
>>Blocks total: 359848 Blocks current: 359848 Blocks remaining: 39926 
>This is the number of blocks you are trying to write.  Since remaining is 
>positive, your ISO is not too large for the media. 
>>     All clues appreciated. 
>See above. :-) 
>Steven 
     Thank you sir.  Sorry if I included too much data. 
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