On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 19:34, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > This might help someone who's using cdrecord to write BIG DISKS. I got > a pack of 900Mb CD-Rs recently, and tried to write a large image > according to the cookbook example in man cdrecord: > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z filename.raw > > Didn't work. As soon as it had written 703Mb it barfed with an > 'attempt to seek past last sector' or similar. This did work: > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao -isosize filename.raw > > The cookbook example for writing audio CDs does work for CDs larger > than 703Mb. (The main reason I bought those CD-Rs was to get both > albums of The Wall onto one CD. That worked fine... but my hi-fi's CD > player doesn't like it - just about manages to read the TOC, can't > manage to read the rest.) > > Hope this helps someone.
Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs? How many minutes of music are they supposed to hold? The only 2 sizes I've seen are 650MiB (74 min) & 700MiB (80 min). -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
