Help with cdrecord

[Andrew Robinson]

Mads V. Pedersen wrote:
> 
> In theory the drive is capable of writing from the "start of lead in" to
> the "start of lead out" which (for data) gives you 359848 - (-11634) =
> 371482 sectors of 2048 bytes (or roughly 725MB). However to write this
> much (or anything more than the specified 700MB) you have to use the
> -overburn option. Without -overburn you can roughly burn from 0 to
> "start of lead out" or just over 700MB.
> 

Jeff Vian wrote:
 >
 > track: 1 start: 0 pregap: 150
 > Total size:      803 MB (79:38.21) = 358366 sectors
 > Lout start:      804 MB (79:40/16) = 358366 sectors[root at bluebird
 > knoppix]# dc
 > 358366 2048 * p
 > 733933568
 >
 > There are a total of 358366 sectors of 2Kb each.
 > Total space is thus:
 >
 > 358366  * 2048  = 733933568 bytes
 >

Gentlemen, thank you very much for the help and information. I think I 
understand now. Thanks for your patience in explaining it to me.

Andrew