On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. Thanks. Could someone tell me what this line means: Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 399360/614400 (300 sectors). -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "it stands to reason that they weren't always called the ancients." -- Daniel Jackson
