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Both good points. Here is my view/opinion on how to proceed. BTW, this will have to be fixed upstream in Gnome...
First, cdrecord probably does not check the capacity prior to recording, and will fail if the eventutal amount of data to be copied to the drive exceeds the capacity of the cd.
So, it appears that we have an issue with older drives that cannot accurately predict the size of an unformatted media. It could be a mini-disk of 200meg or so, a 650 meg disc or 700 meg disk. Newer drives probably have a better shot at predicting the size of the media.
My recommendation is to change the way that CD-Creator prompts for the message. If the drive says it is blank but the size is 0 or very small, say that they are unable to determine the capacity of the media, do you want to proceed? If the drive is blank and the capacity is non-zero, proceed as is now done. i.e. make it a soft error, not a hard one.