Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:21:37 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: ulf@Alameda.net Subject: Re: 652 meg cd? Message-ID: <20040204022136.GA21059@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <16416.20864.82990.362094@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16416.4726.600088.834482@canoe.dclg.ca> <4020468F.20800@freebsd.org> <16416.19620.158157.793481@canoe.dclg.ca> <20040204015403.GF159@seven.alameda.net> <16416.20864.82990.362094@canoe.dclg.ca>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:57:20PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Ulf" =3D=3D Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> writes: >=20 > Ulf> Don't 650MB CD-RW have a little bit less space then 650MB CD-R ? > Ulf> I seem to recall something like that. >=20 > I'd certainly be intersted in documentation of that. You'd think that > they'd be held to truth in advertising on that. There's a fair bit of variation between brands and batches in media size. There is supposed to me a minimum (74 minutes), but it looks like some CD-R media doesn't quite make it. http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_cdr_info_fs.shtml > I did find it strange, tho, that our local office supply store and our > local computer store are both only carying 650 M CDRW (that's what > they're labelled anyways) while they almost universally carry 700 M > CDR's. Is there some kind of limitation? Given that CD-RW's are already more marginal then CD-R's I suspect the 80min hack is just too unreliable for most applications. They do exist, just google for "80min cdrw" and you'll get plenty of hits. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIFcvXY6L6fI4GtQRAk2dAJ9/riCDuFf1qdEJX09IK8eBr9PBHgCg2cWq MP9O5W+EDB439YxK9QGtMSE= =CdYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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