Non-fixated CDROM

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:40:20PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I assume you mean 'cdrecord -fix', but I'm reluctant to do that with
a CDROM that _has_ been fixated, let alone one that was interrupted part
way through.  What I wanted to know was how to detect if this is the
case; what symptoms of a missing/malformed fixation or TOC should I
look for?

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