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On Friday 04 January 2008 19:02:30 Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:25:25PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 04 January 2008 04:02:07 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> > > > -            buf[7] = total_sectors <= 1433600 ? 0x08 : 0x10; /*
> > > > current profile */
> >
> > Where does the constant come from, anyway?
>
> 1433600?  Seems it's the number of 512 KiB blocks in a 700 MiB CD image
> (700 * 1024 * 2).

Except that according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM it's actually 703 
and 1/8 binary megabytes (360,000 sectors *2048 bytes), which would be 
1440000.

And we all know wikipedia's never wrong:
  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902 

Rob
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