On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 11:51:10PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >By the way what is the maximum size acceptable for CD, the current
> >Alpha one is:
> >ll /exports/home/lprylli/OUT-alpha/slink1-alpha.raw
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 lprylli lip 656089088 Mar 8 00:33 /exports/home/lprylli/OUT-alpha/slink1-alpha.raw
>
> 650MB, or 680000000 ish bytes
Actually, a cd holds this much data, but the cd holds more than 650mb...
Reason being is that a cd holds 740mb's of information, but with crc and
various error checking data cd's only have 650mb's left. This is why a cd
full of music takes around 740mb's of room on your harddrive and not 650.
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Chris
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