Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone
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).
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