On 12-Mar-2001 fred smith opined:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:18:10PM -0800, Rick Flurer wrote:
>> my understanding is that a formatted cd-RW disk will not
>> hold anywhere near 650 MB of data. more like 500 MB if i recall
>> correctly.
>
> I *think* that is true if they have a UDF filesystem, like they get on
> Windoze if you choose the option to put on a random-access filesystem.
> When used for "ordinary" CD images I believe they have the same
> capacity.
>
> Fred
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE: CD-RWs
>> > ABrady wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Something may be wrong with the sizes of the ISOs. I downloaded
>> > > them and
>> > > burned them onto ordinary, cheapo (.19) CDRs without a problem. I
>> > > guarantee the CDRs aren't any sort of special, high-capacity
>> > > media.
>> > >
>> > > You might want to verify the sizes and/or download again.
>> >
>> > Hrm . . . well this is odd. Here's my download dir listing:
>> >
>> > total 1299188
>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 Stephen data 4096 Mar 11 16:58 .
>> > drwxrwxr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 7 09:26 ..
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Stephen data 678203392 Mar 11 16:58
>> wolverine-i386-disc1.iso
>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Stephen data 650846208 Mar 11 19:50
>> mwolverine-i386-disc2.iso
>> >
>> > And these sizes correspond exactly to what I'm seeing on RHat's FTP
>> > site.
I've used CD-RW on this same machine (my ancient SCSI cd drives can't read
'em, so I stopped the usage) and I can say unequivocally that CD-RWs
advertised as 650MB will hold the same amount of stuff as a CDR offered
as the same capacity.
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