Disk 2 and 3 Corupt - maybe not :-)

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed May 24 00:01:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 19:39 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 1:18 PM -0700 5/23/06, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> >...  Personally, when I see ISO images at 688MB, I think it's time
> >for the powers-that-be to start creating 6-disc distributions.  688MB is
> >pushing a 700MB CD WAY too farking hard.  Don't forget, there's a 10MB
> >lead-in and a 10MB lead-out on each "session".  Right there, you're
> >talking about squeezing 708MB onto a 700MB single-session disc.  It's
> >pretty obvious why many people have issues, isn't it?
>  ...
> 
> Would burning in DAO mode eliminate the extra 20 MB?

Theoretically, yes, but still 688MB is a LOT to stuff onto a 700MB CD.

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