On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Brian wrote: > >On a related note, just tried burning a Red Hat Pinstripe CD. It >won't > >fit... > > > I wish someone could explain to me how a 665 MB image fit onto a 650 MB CD. > All my CDs are 650 and even though I was positive it wouldn't work, it did. > Especially strange is that the drive I used has been known to "imagine" data > on a blank CD and refuse to write, claiming there wasn't enough space. A CD actually hold close to 2.4 GB of *raw* data. The error correction is a *humongous* over head. (An audio CD is actually 750MB or so of data.) Some blank CD's have a tighter track pitch than others, so there may indeed be CDs that won't work. And I believe that the 650MB is a pretty conservative number. Cheers, Phil Mendelsohn (the math guy formerly known as Chief Engineer, Hotdish Mastering!) ;) -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org