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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: 652 meg cd? 
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> From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:53:17 -0500
> 
> Kevin> Unlike most hard drives (and I think DVDs), CDs are in real
> Kevin> MBs. As a result, you can write about 68 bytes to a standard CD
> Kevin> and about 737 million bytes to a "700 MB" CD. (I put that in
> Kevin> quotation marks because they are really 703 MD without
> Kevin> overburn.)
> 
> Kevin> The current CDs should fit comfortably on and standard CD.  --
> 
> Well... They don't fit on a 650 M "standard" CD.  They current image
> is 672 million bytes-ish.

Mea Culpa, I did the math wrong. (I forgot to multiply by 1024). You are
right. the ISO is JUST too big for a 650 MB CD.

If you allow overburn, it might fit, but it IS getting a bit too big. I
never have used 650 MB CDs, so I had not seen the problem, myself.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634