652 meg cd?

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: David Gilbert <dgilbert at dclg.ca>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:28:22 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> Heh.  I don't know if this is actually for -STABLE yet... what's the
> judgement on that?  But 5.2.1-RC disk 1 is a 652 meg ISO.  Now I know
> that we're arguing about disk sizes again here ... and that most cds
> are 700 M, but the cd-rw's I have around are only 650 M.

Unlike most hard drives (and I think DVDs), CDs are in real MBs. As a
result, you can write about 68 bytes to a standard CD and about 737
million bytes to a "700 MB" CD. (I put that in quotation marks because
they are really 703 MD without overburn.)

The current CDs should fit comfortably on and standard CD. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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