On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:51:09 +0800 siso <ssmcmlxx+debianu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:32 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > > > You ran into a known bug of cdrskin which will be fixed by version > > 1.5.6. It did not even try to burn more than the official number of > > blocks. > > > > Nevertheless it most probably would not have worked, because 36 MiB > > of overburning is just too much for a "700 MB" CD. > > The bug saved my drive fortunately. Yay for that. > > > > And there it went, one good cd. FATAL indeed. > > > > Sorry for that. > > Don't worry about it. It was my poor attempt at tongue-in-cheek humour > :). Just lost one CD-R. The drive is still working fine, i think. > > > After fixing option -force i added quite some warning to the man > > page of cdrskin: > > > > -force > > Assume that the user knows better in situations when cdrskin > > or libburn are refusing because of concerns about drive or media > > state. > > Caution: Use option -force only when in urgent need. > > ... > > First consider to use a medium with more capacity rather > > than trying to overburn a CD. > > > > There are "800 MB"/"90 minutes" CD-R which could take the ISO. > > > > One reason for being able to overburn at all are "900 MB"/"100 > > minutes" CD-R media. They cannot announce their full capacity to > > the drive, because together with the wasteful lead-in and lead-out > > areas they exceed the addressing limit of 100 minutes. > > I see what i missed. I had no idea that 800MB or even 900MB CD-R > existed. Have only seen 700MB CD-R. Which explains my disbelief that > Debian would make a cd iso that couldn't fit into a standard cd. My > bad. But still it is a surprise to me that nobody thought this > deserved a mention in the release notes. I wonder if we are seeing the > last of CD-R as a Debian install medium. Wait, there is still the mini > iso. Ha, CD-R will live on. :) > > > Have a nice day :) > > I appreciate the detailed reply very much. Thank you for taking the > time. You have a nice day too. > Just a thought: Knoppix has never considered 700MB much of a limit. "Because of its transparent decompression, up to 2 gigabyes of executable software can be present on a CD, and up to 10GB on a single-layered DVD." https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-info/index-en.html -- Joe
