From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: IDE CDROM tail read errors Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:55:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:42255 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932314AbWDBKzZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 06:55:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:19:48 +0200 (MEST)") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: lkml , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt writes: >>first: 1 last 1 >>track: 1 lba: 0 ( 0) 00:02:00 adr: 1 control: 4 mode: 1 >>track:lout lba: 335566 ( 1342264) 74:36:16 adr: 1 control: 4 mode: -1 >> >>FC-5-i386-disc1.iso size = 335564 * 2048 bytes, not sure why TOC has >>2 more sectors (8 512B sectors) but I'm not a CD expert. >> > > I have heard from friends that this is due to how readahead works. It > reads beyond the end of the track, and logically, the hardware signals an > error (leading to missing bytes at the end). It is said to be solved using > the -pad option when writing CDs. You mean the read error and not TOC <> .iso track length differences? -- Krzysztof Halasa