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- Path: sparky!uunet!krfiny!jeffj
- From: jeffj@krfiny.uucp (J. Jonas)
- Subject: Re: multi-session - what's different?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.182632.2428@krfiny.uucp>
- Organization: Jeff's house of computer pieces
- References: <1992Dec11.085811.500@ica.philips.nl> <1992Dec19.003903.10604@megatek.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:26:32 GMT
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- > So why can't the *software* use the info in the lead-in area about
- > the next session and just ask the drive to go get those tracks?
- > Why must it be hardware-bound? I thought that you could read any
- > number track anywhere on the cd via the driver, without special
- > hardware...
-
- "on a clear disk, you can seek forever ..."
-
- From what I have ascertained, the CD-ROM firmware reads the disk's label
- and ABSOLUTELY PREVENTS you from seeking or reading
- beyond the end of data.
- That's because the tracks beyond the end of data have no formatting
- and will need to time out to fail.
- It seems CD-ROMs are too smart for their own good,
- (quite unlike floppy drives that will seek to any track, formatted or not).
- --
- Jeffrey Jonas
-
- jeffj@panix.com
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