cliveb;175643 Wrote: > As far as I can make out, based on some experiments, if the drive is > capable of reporting C2 errors (which most are), then EAC tells the > drive NOT to conceal uncorrectable errors, but report them instead. > It's at this point that EAC does its re-reading to see if it can get a > clean read. But if it exhausts the re-read strategy and there is no > clean read, I get the impression that it just uses whatever data it > got. And while this is going on, the drive's firmware isn't doing error > concealment. > > I use a Plextor PX712A drive, and on one disc in particular I was > unable to get EAC to achieve a clean rip, using any of its modes. Using > Plextools I got a clean rip with audio error detection switched OFF > (which presumably activated the firmware's error concealment). But in > hindsight, I might not have tried EAC using secure mode but with C2 > capability switched off, so I'll give that a go and report back.
Funny you should mention that. My cd drive can report c2 errors, and my dvd drive can't. EAC detected this, and recommended that I use my dvd drive. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
