Read & Write (Lead-in & Lead-out capabilities), Utilities for Lead-in & Lead-out confirm |
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Read & Write (Lead-in & Lead-out capabilities), Utilities for Lead-in & Lead-out confirm |
 Jul 14 2005, 01:20
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Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 13-June 05 Member No.: 22695  |
Looking for a utility or a method for confirming CD/DVD drive capabilities
Specifically read & write Lead-in & Lead-out capabilities. For instance ASUS Techs tell me all their drives are capable of R Lead-in & Lead- out and all the Writing drives are capable of R&W Lead-in & Lead-out. But EAC, when testing for overreading capability & sample offset suggest that the ASUS drive I am testing has only read-in Capability So maybe somebody can give me a better understanding of what Lead-in & Lead-out is and how I can best confirm my drives capabilities. |
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Jul 14 2005, 05:03
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Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Denmark Member No.: 20365 |
On this site : http://www.daefeatures.co.uk, there are 7 ASUS drives listed, and they can all overead into lead-in only, so the ASUS techs you have been talking to are clearly wrong... According to the EAC test you did, your drive can overread into lead-in only, so if you have a possitive offset correction value, then untick the overreading option in EAC, and make sure the 'Fill up missing offset samples with silence' option is ticked. Also EAC only has overwriting enabled for some Teac drive's... -Martin.
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Jul 14 2005, 05:28
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Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 13-June 05 Member No.: 22695 |
QUOTE (Martin H @ Jul 13 2005, 10:03 PM) On this site : http://www.daefeatures.co.uk, there are 7 ASUS drives listed, and they can all overead into lead-in only, so the ASUS techs you have been talking to are clearly wrong... According to the EAC test you did, your drive can overread into lead-in only, so if you have a possitive offset correction value, then untick the overreading option in EAC, and make sure the 'Fill up missing offset samples with silence' option is ticked. Also EAC only has overwriting enabled for some Teac drive's... -Martin.  Figures I use to Techs Talking out their A_ _ On the ASUS I have a read offset of +6 & a write offset of -6 So I take it that your advice applies to my drives. (Still trying to grasp all the stuff I have been reading) Still would like to know about other utilities that can test these features. I did some searching and came up with nothing. |
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Jul 14 2005, 05:48
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Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Denmark Member No.: 20365 |
I would recommend you to read this post about offset correction by Pio2001 :
http://www.digital-inn.de/showthread.php?threadid=4193 -Martin. |
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Jul 14 2005, 06:39
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 Group: Members Posts: 2144 Joined: 29-June 02 From: Boston Member No.: 2427 |
QUOTE (ohdeus @ Jul 14 2005, 12:28 AM) QUOTE (Martin H @ Jul 13 2005, 10:03 PM) On this site : http://www.daefeatures.co.uk, there are 7 ASUS drives listed, and they can all overead into lead-in only, so the ASUS techs you have been talking to are clearly wrong... According to the EAC test you did, your drive can overread into lead-in only, so if you have a possitive offset correction value, then untick the overreading option in EAC, and make sure the 'Fill up missing offset samples with silence' option is ticked. Also EAC only has overwriting enabled for some Teac drive's... -Martin. Figures I use to Techs Talking out their A_ _ On the ASUS I have a read offset of +6 & a write offset of -6 So I take it that your advice applies to my drives. (Still trying to grasp all the stuff I have been reading) Still would like to know about other utilities that can test these features. I did some searching and came up with nothing. From those values, it looks like you have a Asus-branded Lite-On. I'd try to find out what Lite-On drive it is. -------------------- "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." Neil Peart 'Resist'
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Jul 14 2005, 17:34
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 Moderator Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3934 Joined: 29-September 01 Member No.: 73 |
Look rather at this link from the FAQ : http://www.digital-inn.de/showthread.php?threadid=9805
If you don't have CDs with audio data in the lead-in or lead out, you can burn one, but according to your combined offset, the data will only appear to be into the lead-out (positive offset), in the lead-in (negative offset), or none (null offset). |
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Jul 15 2005, 06:50
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Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 13-June 05 Member No.: 22695 |
QUOTE (dreamliner77 @ Jul 13 2005, 11:39 PM) QUOTE (ohdeus @ Jul 14 2005, 12:28 AM) QUOTE (Martin H @ Jul 13 2005, 10:03 PM) On this site : http://www.daefeatures.co.uk, there are 7 ASUS drives listed, and they can all overead into lead-in only, so the ASUS techs you have been talking to are clearly wrong... According to the EAC test you did, your drive can overread into lead-in only, so if you have a possitive offset correction value, then untick the overreading option in EAC, and make sure the 'Fill up missing offset samples with silence' option is ticked. Also EAC only has overwriting enabled for some Teac drive's... -Martin. Figures I use to Techs Talking out their A_ _ On the ASUS I have a read offset of +6 & a write offset of -6 So I take it that your advice applies to my drives. (Still trying to grasp all the stuff I have been reading) Still would like to know about other utilities that can test these features. I did some searching and came up with nothing. From those values, it looks like you have a Asus-branded Lite-On. I'd try to find out what Lite-On drive it is. I am working with four different Drives, The Asus is the last in the list. Brand: JLMS Model/Type: XJ-HD166S Firmware: DS1E Accurate Stream: Yes Audio Caching: Yes C2 Error Retrieval: Yes Read Command: MMC1 Read Offset Correction: +12 Overreading into Lead-In and Lead-Out: I Read CD-TEXT Information: Yes Gap/Index Retrieval Method: A Gap Detection Accuracy: Secure EAC Write: n/a Write Offset: n/a Overwriting into Lead-In and Lead-Out: n/a Write UPC/ISRC Information: n/a Write CD-TEXT Information: n/a Average EAC Reading Speed: 9.7 Comment: Brand: Lite-On Model/Type: LTR-52327S Firmware: QS5A Accurate Stream: Yes Audio Caching: Yes C2 Error Retrieval: Yes Read Command: MMC1 Read Offset Correction: +6 Overreading into Lead-In and Lead-Out: I Read CD-TEXT Information: Yes Gap/Index Retrieval Method: A Gap Detection Accuracy: Secure EAC Write: Yes Write Offset: -6 Overwriting into Lead-In and Lead-Out: ? Write UPC/ISRC Information: Yes Write CD-TEXT Information: Yes Average EAC Reading Speed: 10.7 Comment: --------------------------Next 2 are on a different computer Brand: Lite-On Model/Type: DVDRW LDW-811S Firmware: HSOR Accurate Stream: Yes Audio Caching: Yes C2 Error Retrieval: Yes Read Command: MMC1 Read Offset Correction: +12 Overreading into Lead-In and Lead-Out: I Read CD-TEXT Information: Yes Gap/Index Retrieval Method: A Gap Detection Accuracy: Secure EAC Write: Yes Write Offset: 6 Overwriting into Lead-In and Lead-Out: ? Write UPC/ISRC Information: Yes Write CD-TEXT Information: Yes Average EAC Reading Speed: 10.6 Comment: Brand: Asus Model/Type: CRW-5224A Firmware: v1.5 Accurate Stream: Yes Audio Caching: Yes C2 Error Retrieval: Yes Read Command: MMC1 Read Offset Correction: +6 Overreading into Lead-In and Lead-Out: I Read CD-TEXT Information: Yes Gap/Index Retrieval Method: A Gap Detection Accuracy: Secure EAC Write: Yes Write Offset: -6 Overwriting into Lead-In and Lead-Out: I/O Write UPC/ISRC Information: Yes Write CD-TEXT Information: Yes Average EAC Reading Speed: 3.7 (I dont believe this is an accurate speed because it is on the computer with low memory) Comment: This post has been edited by ohdeus: Jul 15 2005, 06:51 |
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