Non-fixated CDROM

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm just getting used to this version of xcdroast, but was doing a
> batch of CDROMs last night.  In the process, I think once or twice
> I thought the recording was done while the fixating was in fact
> still going on, and I forced the drive open anyway.
>
> Now I don't know which ones this happened to.  And I haven't a clue
> what 'fixating' really is, or what a CDROM would look like if that
> part of the process hadn't happened.  Can anybody tell me what to
> look for?

According to the cdrecord man page, a disk that is 'fixated' has a TOC
(table of contents) for the CD reader.  You can use the -fix switch for a
disk that has been written but not fixated.

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