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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:33:49 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, (SXren Schmidt) <sos@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010105213349.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200101050829.JAA95057@freebsd.dk>

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On 05-Jan-01 Soren Schmidt wrote:
>  Burnproof is a technology that allow the laser to be switched on/off
>  very quickly, so if you have a buffer underrun the drive just stops
>  writing, when data arrives again, it starts off where it stopped
>  without any noticeable gaps. This seems like a natural thing to do,
>  but burners havn't been able to this until now, they needed a fair
>  amount of time to switch on/off which would create non wanted
>  gaps in the recorded data...
>  
>  I have no idea why burner's wasn't created this way to begin with :)

Ahh OK, makes sense, but as you say, why didn't they do that to begin with? :)

Thanks for the information.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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