David Guntner wrote: > Charlie grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>Please have a look at the relevant manufacturer's site for revisions before >>you have any more trouble. The updated firmware for my burner was >>specifically for newer media. As in larger. Under Windows of course. > > > Just to follow up: I did some Google searching and came across a message > board with messages dated back in 2001 (mid-to-late). A lot of discussion > going on, but the main jist of it was that the drive doesn't support 700M > media - only 650M. It sounds like HP had no intention at that time of > doing anything to enable it; it would appear that they would have much > rather you buy a newer drive. Joy. And I'm so so so so amazingly broke > right now that a new CD burner purchase is pretty much out of the question. > <sigh> > > I wish I know who the rocket scientist at Mandrake was that decided ISOs > that create CDs larger than 650M was a good idea, so that I could thank him > with a large brick. :-(
cdrecord has an --overburn option. Have you tried that? -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] IMPORTANT! troels... for ML 9.0 now available. See my web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/
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