From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] scuzz doesn't like CD-RW?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:14:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061010221415.GA31555@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f3897940610101456w42b3699k6e71ec8d6ee386f@mail.gmail.com>
* Pawe?? Lasek (pawel.lasek@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 10/10/06, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> >Depending on the drive, you may also need to write multiples of 2048
> >bytes, padded if necessary. tar writes multiples of 512 bytes, so
> >using dd to pad it might be necessary. Even then, if you write
> >directly to /dev/sdD0/data, you'll need to fixate (close) the disc.
>
> Typical drives accept only 2048 bytes/sector (or variations for
> certain types of recording where you write not only data but also have
> to supply all that additional data which makes CD a 700 MB instead of
> full 1 GB :>).
>
> IIRC 2048 b/s is standard sector size for data in CD-ROM standard
Actually, the sector size is 2352 bytes, 2048 of which is data. The rest is
mainly for error correction (which is vital for data and not needed for
audio).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 5:01 cej
2006-10-09 18:12 ` geoff
2006-10-09 18:34 ` geoff
2006-10-10 4:28 ` cej
2006-10-10 7:29 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-10 7:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-10 7:50 ` cej
2006-10-10 8:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-10 8:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-10 8:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-10 8:37 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-10 19:50 ` geoff
2006-10-10 21:56 ` Paweł Lasek
2006-10-10 22:14 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-10-11 10:46 ` cej
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