Non-fixated CDROM

[Ronnie Gauthier]

It used to be that when you wrote to a cd that was it, one write, the TOC was 
done last. With multi session you can write to a disk then add more later. 
What it does it to make a linked TOC files. This takes up about 17M of space 
for the first TOC and about 13M for each one thereafter. This extra room 
needed does not show up in the file size(s) displayed by the burner(least not 
for me).
 
On Friday 31 May 2002 08:49 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I am using alpha10 now, I have no idea what multisession would do for me,
> and what it has to do with fixating.  This is becoming a way of life:
> there's so much interesting stuff to do I wouldn't have time to RTFM
> even if the FM had been written yet, which it hasn't.  In any event,
> I've tossed the one CD that appeared to be unreadable, and located
> the iso again, and burnt it.
>
> I did find out that fixating puts a table of contents on the disk;
> why that's separate from the contents themselves is beyond my ken.
> I also had a quick email exchange with the author, who put me to
> rights about some of my stupidies (rightfully) and was still gracious
> enough to take two of my suggestions seriously.  This is also a way
> of life, at least in Open Source.  I love it.
>
> ++ kevin
>
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:17:02AM +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > On Friday 31 May 2002 06:37 am, you 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?
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, I think I'll look up the software team and complain about
> > > that part of the GUI: it shows all 100% progress bars and I have to
> > > read the fine print to know I'm not done yet.  This is 0.98alpha8,
> > > and I know it's a test release from a while back, but it's what
> > > I've got.
> > >
> > > ++ kevin
> >
> > You should be using alpha10 it does multisession now.
> >
> > --
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