[conspire] is there a minimum size iso that cdrecord will successfully write to a cd?

[Darlene Wallach]

I created an iso image of some rpms and html files. I then tried to
write the iso to a cd using cdrecord. Both mkisofs and cdrecord
seemed to finish successfully. When I do an "ls /mnt/cdrom"
I do not see the iso image. Is there a minimum size that cdrecord
can write? Did I make a mistake in mkisofs or cdrecord command
options? Any help, advice, suggestions will be appreciated.

This is the mkisofs command I used:
# mkisofs -v -o name.iso -l -r -V NAME path1/ path2/ > 
./mkisofs-name.iso.log 2>&1
It generated an iso file using ls -l  of size 15859712

the log file shows:
  64.62% done, estimate finish Tue Nov  2 11:23:41 2004
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 9705
Total directory bytes: 26624
Path table size(bytes): 422
Max brk space used 12000
7744 extents written (15 Mb)


This is the cdrecord command I used to write to the cd:
# cdrecord -v -dev=0,0,0 speed=8 name.iso ./cdrecord-name.iso.log 
2>&1

the log file shows:
Cdrecord 1.11a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 
J1iso8859-15örg S
chilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
atapi: 0
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 4
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   : SYNC
Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW  CRX145S  '
Revision       : '1.0b'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 4183808 = 4085 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data    15 MB
Track 02: data     0 MB         padsize:  598 KB
Total size:       18 MB (01:49.30) = 8198 sectors
Lout start:       18 MB (01:51/23) = 8198 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
   Indicated writing power: 5
   Is not unrestricted
   Is not erasable
   Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4)
   ATIP start of lead in:  -12369 (97:17/06)
   ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get money for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 351651
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation 
starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer 
ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:   15 of   15 MB written (fifo 100%)  8.4x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 15859712/15859712 (7744 sectors).
Starting new track at sector: 7896
Track 02:   0 of   0 MB written.
WARNING: padding up to secsize.
Track 02: writing 598 KB of pad data.
Track 02: Total bytes read/written: 43/614400 (300 sectors).
Writing  time:   23.998s
Fixating...
Fixating time:   42.383s
cdrecord: fifo had 251 puts and 251 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 143 times full, min fill was 
93%.