Re: IDE CDROM tail read errors

Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-02T10:55:26Z

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> 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?
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Krzysztof Halasa