At 9:43 AM -0600 11/10/06, Michael Hennebry wrote: >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). It means that the program read about 400 KB and wrote about 600 KB, which is 300 2 KB sectors on a CD, to track 1. This is less than 700 MB. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
