I beg to differ:
man cdrecord (FC2):
-nopad Do not pad the following tracks - the default.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Newbigin wrote:
> mkisofs -pad ?
> This is normally done by default unless you use -nopad
>
> Read http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm
> it has good info, (except for a dd typo)
>
> John.
>
> Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure we should just prepad the ISO's with 300KB worth of zeroes
> > before calcing their md5sums and distributing them, I'll check whether
> > this works (what's a CD worth? 30cents?) in a moment and report back.
> > If this only passes mediacheck (all reports are it should) then this will
> > eliminate _all_ non-badburner and bad-media related burn errors (some 95%
> > I'd say) and save a lot of trouble for a lot of people (ie I wasted a CD
> > and 10 minutes burning the 4 centos4 cd's).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > MaZe.
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:27:02 -0500, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>This is my last post on the subject since people seem to be more interested in
> >>>splitting hairs than in helping people get a good burn on their hardware.
> >>>And whether their hardware is broken or not is irrelevant; there is a
> >>>recommendation that works for the vast majority of people that have the
> >>>problem, and I simply looked through my archives to try to help people get a
> >>>good burn. If I had known that people were going to nitpick my post I
> >>>would not have bothered looking through my archives, nor would I have
> >>>posted it.
> >>>--
> >>
> >>Please don't consider my questions on the subject "nitpicking." I'm
> >>just enterested in learning "the rest of the story," most especially
> >>since it runs counter to several years of my own experience.
> >>
> >>Thank you for replying at length. Helping people to understand "why"
> >>is somethimes just as important as understanding "how" or "what."
> >>
> >>
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