In Reply to: I'm confused posted by andy_c on August 26, 2006 at 07:21:08:
It may well be that your drive was simply optimized for a particular speed and slowing it down causes more errors since it is now running at a non-optimized speed.Data extraction from a CD is subject to error correction schemes, whether music or data. For example, when you install an operating system (whether Windows, Linux or another) there are millions of lines of code that must be read perfectly or the OS won't work correctly. I know of no technically savvy computer user that instructs his CD to extract program installation data at a particular speed.
If EAC gets an error, it'll re-read that portion of the disk until it gets it right. It should be irrelevant to you what speed it chooses to read the disk.
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- Re: a drive can be optimized for a speed - mls-stl 15:48:11 08/26/06 (0)