Im not a expert, especially at linux yet, but i know windows and a good
bit about cd burning (under win, not lin).
Yes, make sure they are 700MB cds. Over burnt cds can really make
things hard
And make sure they are CD-R's, not RW.... this can cause problems and is
easily overlooked sometimes.
The speed (age) of a burner should not matter. I still can still burn
any cd including 700MB iso with my old 1x/2x Sony cd writer (not rewrite
either :-)
I think that maybe the software you are using is not setup correctly or
something. I use Nero. To burn a 700MB iso correctly in Nero, the CD
MUST be finalized or there will be problems (not enough room). Infact
Nero will require the cd to be finalized. (The old 650 iso did not
require finalize if a 700MB blank was used.) I believe this is how that
goes, I maybe wrong so don't get to mad.
A cd-R (to make this simplier) can be finalized or not finalized (cant
remember the word for this) the difference is a finalized cd cannot be
written on again (even if only 10MB is used or 700) and a toc is written
that does not take up much room at all. A non-finalized cd can be
re-written to (only if sufficient room is available) and a toc (im
pretty sure) AND a extra section (to end the session i think, because
multiple burns create multiple sessions [some older cdrom drives cannot
see multiple sessions but this has nothing to do with iso's] ) that
takes up about 13MB extra.
* I have no experience YET with linux burning software (i hope to soon)
the following is only spectulation *
If the cd is a cd-R and is 700MB (and this is not a manufactoring
defect of somesort) maybe the software will "let" you burn a 700MB iso
without finalizing. Which will cause more that 700MB to be written and
cause all of the problems (maybe). The 1000 x 1000 toc thing can also
be the problem, (newer software should auto detect 1024) older versions
of Nero had this problem, it would ask and you would have to know to use
1024 instead of 1000.
These problems "should" not be burner problems (unless the burner is
going bad). Is the burner fully compatible with the software? I hope
this will help. And i assume that this is not old cdrom drive problems,
try the cd in different drives to test. Old cdrom drives can not read
burnt cds, and some might just have problems with cds over 650MB...
Jake r Magee
