25 Oct
2001
25 Oct
'01
18:37
Hi,
I looked into this a while ago.. As far as I can tell, if you do a full blank on the disc, you get the right size.. but a quick blank gives the reduced size.
As far as I can tell, after a full blank, cdrwtool gets given the size of the disc in real, physical blocks (approx 336000). After a quick blank, though, the drive reports the size in available blocks for packet-writing (ie. around 275000 or so).
Fidling around, I couldn't find a way to get the correct size from the disc once a quick format was done (other than just guessing if the size looks small)..
Could you perhaps use the ATIP start of lead-out information or something? This is still correctly reported (by cdrecord). Stephen