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>Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity there wa
by serf 6y ago
>Found out a few years later that the drives were defective, and would often (but not always!) have buffer errors when burning discs close to capacity
there was a slew of software hacks in most cd burning suites that'd attempt to deal with that problem across the industry.
believe it or not : time dependent FIFO buffers are capital H Hard. Or at least they were back then.. I suspect the damage done by poorly constructed FIFO buffers now is just more hidden, not exactly lessened.
- simonklitj 6y agoA little interested! What exactly are FIFO buffers?
- mulmen 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_(computing_and_electronics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO_(computing_and_electron...
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoI was bulk ripping CDs a few months ago and was running multiple SCSI drives to increase my throughput. The current Linux SCSI drivers will lock up the bus when you insert a disc and ruin any transfers already in progress on another drive. You'd think something like that would have been resolved at this point.
- dylan604 6y agoAn actual SCSI device? And you're complaining about "by now". How old of hardware are you using? "By now" fixes are included in modern hardware on USB.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoI have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction. I have one USB Plextor but they command a high resale price. The point is that basic bus management should be sorted out and it clearly isn't.
- BuildTheRobots 6y ago> I have a number of Plextor CD-ROM drives that are more desirable than DVD-ROM for CD audio extraction If you're pulling a digital bit-stream off a disk then why does the reader matter?
- mjg59 6y agoA lot of CDs aren't in perfect condition, either because of scratches or things like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc_bronzing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc_bronzing. When faced with damaged data, the quality of the drive and its firmware will influence whether the data stream corresponds to the original content or not.
- BuildTheRobots 6y agoThanks for the explanation - I misinterpreted the OC to be about audio quality rather than just trying to recover data from damaged media.
- mjg59 6y agoGiven a perfect CD the drive is probably not going to have significant impact, but for an audio CD that's been exposed to real world conditions there's a bunch of ways the drive can make a difference to the recovered data.