Re: IDE CDROM tail read errors

Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-02T18:13:34Z

>>
>> 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?

Maps to

if(toc_len >= iso + pad)
ok;
else
b0rk on last sectors;