At 11:27 AM -0600 11/9/06, Michael Hennebry wrote: >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? ... According to the growisofs page at <http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/#compat>, some DVD players won't work properly unless there is 1 GB of data on the DVD. Many other drives are smarter, and will be fine with less data. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
