On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:06:11AM +0200, Efraim Yawitz wrote: > Hi, >
> > I just downloaded the second iso image for Mandrake 9.2, and it is >
> 731 MB.
> 
> No it's not. It's 731797504 bytes, which are 698MiB, less than the
> maximum of 700MiB which is the maximum of modern burners/media. Are
> you sure you used 700MB media? Note that I did not try burning
> mandrake 9.2, but I did burn other iso images which were almost 700MiB
> (e.g. latest knoppix is 733929472 bytes = 699.93 MiB).
 
I just tried another one, with the same problem.  This time, I can even
easily see that there is a good couple of mm of empty space at the edge of
the disk, and yet it gives an IO error.  Could it just be these cheapo
disks?

Thanks,

Ephraim


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