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?

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