Can one of the optical media experts out there confirm something for me? The older CDs were marked as containing 650MB. The newer ones are 700MB. DVDs are 4.7GB.
>From what I see in K3B, the 700MB is 700*(1024)^2, or 734,003,200 bytes. In other words, the computer science interpretation of MB is used, as when you buy RAM. Actually, to be precise, K3B reports its has 703MB, which would be 737148928 bytes. But there may be round off error in these values. But for DVDs, it seems to be 4.7*(1000)^3, or 4,700,000,000 bytes. This is the engineering interpretation of GB, as when you buy hard disks. K3B reports this as 4.4GB. I've searched Google, but all I find are references to the same MB/GB values with no explanation of which definition of these terms they're using. Can someone confirm or correct my understanding? Can anyone give me the exact byte count on each type of disk, or as close as possible to that? Or point me to where I can find them (other than buying copeis of the ISO standards)? I need to know the maximum size of a tarball that will fit on a single disk. Thanks, -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
