Plextor CD writers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 May 2000

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.
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Dept. of Computer Science
                                                University of York