11 Nov
2002
11 Nov
'02
2:13 a.m.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Eric Smith wrote:
"Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai(a)attbi.com>
wrote:
You can't always trust that data though. Its unfortunately common for some
CD-R manufacturers to sell off old glass masters to budget CD-R companies,
who (obviously) can't change the data (that would require creating a whole
new glass master). Such companies may then use any one of the numerous dye
compounds when making the actual CD-R, which very well may not reflect the
stored ATIP data from the glass master.
-Toth
How do you know you are getting one of theirs vs.
other mfgs (as you
just experienced)
By using software that shows the contents of the ATIP data area on the
disc. The open-source program cdrecord does this; presumably there must
exist other programs that can do it.