[Bug 42023] Re: [Bug 42023] Re: Erros on writing and reading a dvd-ram

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 22:32 +0000, mistr wrote:
> That was my thought as well, but there two facts to consider:
> 
> On the DVD-R empty media (Verbatim) is says 4.7 GB. I know, this is the
> propaganda value. K3B itself reports (Disk Info):
> 
> DVD-R sequential
> 510:46:46    4.4 GB
> 
> Is there another tool that displays the media info?

I don't mean the media type data, I mean the data itself on the disk
reports the size of say the partition (just like a hardisk partition
would). If this data on the disk is incorrect, the it would report a
truncated length for the session/partition.

As for the 4.4/4.7 GB discrepancy, that's a marketing/technical issue.
4.7GB is the 10-base measurement, and 4.4GB is the 2-based one (e.g.
1000 bytes == 1k as opposed to 1024 bytes == 1k).

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Erros on writing and reading a dvd-ram
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