Hi, On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:32 AM Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > You ran into a known bug of cdrskin which will be fixed by version 1.5.6. > It did not even try to burn more than the official number of blocks. > > Nevertheless it most probably would not have worked, because 36 MiB of > overburning is just too much for a "700 MB" CD.
The bug saved my drive fortunately. Yay for that. > > And there it went, one good cd. FATAL indeed. > > Sorry for that. Don't worry about it. It was my poor attempt at tongue-in-cheek humour :). Just lost one CD-R. The drive is still working fine, i think. > After fixing option -force i added quite some warning to the man page > of cdrskin: > > -force > Assume that the user knows better in situations when cdrskin or > libburn are refusing because of concerns about drive or media > state. > Caution: Use option -force only when in urgent need. > ... > First consider to use a medium with more capacity rather than > trying to overburn a CD. > > There are "800 MB"/"90 minutes" CD-R which could take the ISO. > > One reason for being able to overburn at all are "900 MB"/"100 minutes" > CD-R media. They cannot announce their full capacity to the drive, > because together with the wasteful lead-in and lead-out areas they exceed > the addressing limit of 100 minutes. I see what i missed. I had no idea that 800MB or even 900MB CD-R existed. Have only seen 700MB CD-R. Which explains my disbelief that Debian would make a cd iso that couldn't fit into a standard cd. My bad. But still it is a surprise to me that nobody thought this deserved a mention in the release notes. I wonder if we are seeing the last of CD-R as a Debian install medium. Wait, there is still the mini iso. Ha, CD-R will live on. :) > Have a nice day :) I appreciate the detailed reply very much. Thank you for taking the time. You have a nice day too. siso
