On 24 Apr 2004 at 11:17, Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu wrote: > > It's not a legend. > Even if you can read all the files from a CD, that doesn't means the media > is error free. Most of the errors (like C1 ones) can be corrected on the > fly - the unit won't even slow down. It's normal to have some C1 errors (of > course, as few as possible), but you should have no C2 errors on your drive (not > all the C2 errors can be corrected, btw). So, if you want to find out if a CDR > written at full speed is as good as one written at 12-16X, just count the C1 > errors. I bet you'll get more of them if you burn at top speed. The problem is > that only Plextor and LiteOn units will report the C1 errors. Btw: I have a Sony > CRX300a, which in fact is made by LiteOn; but my system won't allow me to burn > at 40(48)X. At 12X, everything seems to be fine - when using Verbatim pastels > (made by Taiyo Yuden) and not some Ritek or CMC crap.
Hi Alex, I've done the pro CD maintenance courses at Sony, I have a excerpt from the red book, so I do have un understanding of the error correction mechanisms underlying CD red book standard. If you are really interested C1 errors can be read write quite easily using EAC or other packages that support secure mode extraction and C2 error detection, all my drives do. I've been doing this a while (in personal and professional capacities) and I've never experienced problems. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
