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- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!shiva
- From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
- Subject: What is a Q subchannel?
- Message-ID: <BzqonG.391@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:11:40 GMT
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- I keep seeing the mention of subchannels here. What are they? I suppose
- the more general question is how a CD-ROM looks different from a hard
- disk to a SCSI bus. I get the impression that one can either read "data"
- or a lot of out-of-band information from the disc.
-