"Thomas Schmitt" <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
