652 meg cd?

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:36:36PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> >> ls -la 5.2.1-RC-i386-disc1.iso
> Scott> -rw-r--r-- 1 scottl archive 672792576 Jan 31 20:05
> Scott> 5.2.1-RC-i386-disc1.iso
> >> dc
> Scott> 672792576 1024 / p 657024 1024 / p 641
> 
> Scott> That is to say that the image is 641MB, where a MB == MegaByte
> Scott> == 1024 * 1024 bytes.  This is the standard way that CD
> Scott> capacities are measured.  If your initial starting size is
> Scott> different from was I just pasted in, then you might want to
> Scott> check the MD5 and verify that what you have (or where you got
> Scott> it from) is not corrupt.
> 
> No... that is the size I have ... but curiously burncd is refusing to
> put it onto a 650 meg CDRW that I have.  It works just fine on the
> 700M CDR's that I have, tho.
> 
> Dave.

Don't 650MB CD-RW have a little bit less space then 650MB CD-R ?
I seem to recall something like that.

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