Plextor CD writers

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu May 4 03:50:53 2000

At 08:06 AM 5/4/00 +0000, Pete wrote:
> 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.


I tried to duplicate the bootable VMS 7.1 CD on my Sony CD-R drive and it
didn't work. (Using Adaptec EZ CD creator's "Clone" facility) So I guessed
it was the block size issue.
--Chuck
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 03:50:53 BST