Re: Thoughts on writing CD from stdin
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave Platt wrote:
> > Unfortunately, determining the end-of-data (end-of-track) location on a
> > data CD is one of those things which is difficult-to-impossible to do
> > reliably.
>
> This is actually a matter of the device driver
> and not so much of drive and media. The size of
> a logical track as obtained by MMC commands is
> reliable. One just has to be aware that not all
> types of sectors can be read by the SCSI command
> for reading data blocks.
>
> In the special case of CD TAO data tracks there are
> two such non-data blocks at the end of each track.
> (Not related to Darth Bane's Rule Of Two.)
This only refers to "most" drives. There are known drives that
add 7 run out blocks.....
Jörg
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