what is cdrecord doing?

[Michael Hennebry]

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).

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