On May 3, 21:15, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Ok, so a couple of people have pointed out that the Plextor's support 512
> byte sectors. Further the Plextor CD writer also supports 512 byte
sectors.
> So my question is can I use it to write a bootable disk image? Has anyone
> tried this? Tim?
I haven't used a Plextor writer, but I see no reason for it not to work.
Any writer can write a bootable image. I've done so with my Yamahas and
Teac. Writing is always done with 2048-byte blocks; the sectors in the
images are always 2048 bytes (well, for Mode 1 data, anyway). Setting a
CD-ROM to read in 512-byte blocks just makes it deliver the data in chunks
that size, it has nothing to do with the physical blocksize on the CD.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 03:06:26 BST