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General question about CDR's

Weezer - Jan 16, 2002

		Weezer	Jan 16, 2002
		Okay, I've been wondering this for sometime now, and I feel like an idiot.. The CD's I buy say they're "700MB". However, I'm only able to burn about 670 MB to the disc before it tells me it's full. And if I click on my CD drive, and it shows the little pie chart of how much space is taken up, it says the max is 670 and not 700. So what is up with this? Does it have to do with my CD drive?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Jan 16, 2002
		What burner do you have? Does the manual say it can burn 700MB (i.e., 80 minute) CD-Rs? Also, what recording software are you using? As for it saying the max is 670, that's because that is how much has been burned onto the CD-R. Think of it as only 670MB of space has been formatted on the CD-R.

		Weezer	Jan 16, 2002
		so it depends on the burner then? that's what i thought.. thanks.

		megametalgreymon	Jan 17, 2002
		just a thought, are you using direct cd or something similar to put files onto the cd like you would do a hard disk? if so, then the way direct cd works if i remember correctly, is to format the cdr in someway before you use it to store data on that would account for the missing 30mb of space

		Weezer	Jan 19, 2002
		Yeah I am using that... I figured it would format it in some way, but then I also thought that if it did, it'd still say "700MB" when I highlighted my D Drive, instead of the formatted 670.

		megametalgreymon	Jan 19, 2002
		no afraid not, its like floppy disks are sometimes marked as 2mb, even though once you format them they only have 1.44mb space on them