[Debburn-devel] Errors when attempting to burn DVDs

[Julian Calaby]

On 6/1/07, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > >   growisofs /dev/hdc=dvd.iso
> > Claims that the amount to be written is larger than the available
> > space on the disk. WTF?
> > =====
> > # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=dvd.iso
> > Executing 'builtin_dd if=dvd.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0'
> > :-( /dev/hdc: 2295104 blocks are free, 2320832 to be written!
>
> Did i miscalculate the hex number reported by wodim ?
> I did:  2369BAh = 2320826 decimal.
>
> This indicates the problem is with dvd.iso which is larger
> than the usual size of a DVD+R. Not much, but enough to make
> it fail.
>
> The capacity "4.7 GB" for DVD means 4.9 billion bytes.
> That is 4482 MiB plus some extra bytes.

Fscking hell. Grr. I deliberately made it smaller so that'd fit properly. Fsck.

Fscking marketing departments.

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Julian Calaby

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