24 Apr
2010
24 Apr
'10
12:51 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:51:42PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 04:03:03AM +0200, Fons
Adriaensen wrote:
Mode 1/2 is YellowBook, CD-ROM. Aren't you making an *Audio* CD ?
Anyway, if the pits are less reliable when written at high speed,
that really means that the drive doesn's support that speed except
in marketing terms.
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:27:17PM -0700, Ken
Restivo wrote:
I didn't phrase my question properly.
I don't mean issues of buffering or keeping up with data; at maximum speed the buffer
is 100% full the whole time.
What I meant was the sounds-like-voodoo stuff that the guy on that mailing list link was
talking about: the drive being MODE2 and not having error correction and thus there being
analog writing errors introduced by the laser when spinning the disc at maximum speed, and
the pits being more reliable and having fewer errors when written at slower speed. But that raises the other question: does it even
make sense to burn an audio CD at < maximum anyway? Are there errors introduced by
burning RedBook CD's at higher speeds?
You'll have to try it. Since write speed is a marketing
point the official value can't be trusted. Half that
speed is probably reliable. For the rest, AFAIK, it's
a matter of your system being able to provide the data
in time. There's some buffering the drive, but that
can only handle so much delay.