[ale] Coaster Production in Progress

[Jeff Hubbs]

Inasmuch as I appreciate this information, does anyone have any idea as to
why I can't burn a complete CD to save my life?

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: Wandered Inn
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Coaster Production in Progress
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:10:01PM -0400, Wandered Inn wrote:
> > > I see what you mean, but why does it say "Track 01: 136 
> of 639 MB written"?
> > > The actual size of the ISO (as shown by ls -l) is 639MB.  
> Where is the 734MB
> > > coming from?
> > I believe it has to do with some padding that happens when 
> the copy is
> > completed, although 100MB sure is a lot padding.
> 
> Not quite.   Do the math:
> 
> 72 minutes of 44.1KKz stereo 16-bit audio takes 762,048,000 
> bytes.  That's
> the raw capacity of the CD, WITHOUT the leadin, TOC and whatnot.
> 
> Yet a 72 minute CD only can handle 650MB of data.  
> 
> That's because (mode1) data CDs have 2,048 byte sectors, when the raw
> sector size of a CD is about 2,300 bytes.  This is used for error
> correction and whatnot.
> 
> When cdrecord calculates the space required, it gives you the 
> raw size,
> not the size of the data.
> 
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