On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:07 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > I used cdrecord to burn a DVD.
> > It seems to have worked, but the output confuses me.
> > The last line is:
> > Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 399360/614400 (300 sectors).
> >
> That would be almost 700mb, which is the typical max size for a CD. You
> are after all using cdrecord which is designed with CDs in mind.
The iso file was much smaller than that.
It seems to me that I read somewhere that that is
also the minimum amount of data one can put on a DVD.
Is that correct?
> Why not use growisofs (cli) or use k3b (gui) to burn the dvd. Both are
> designed for that.
I suppose I could, but that wouldn't answer my question:
what is going on?
> > When I've done CD's the read/written
> > numbers were usually exactly the same.
> > They were never that different.
> > What is going on? Why the big difference?
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