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4-3] I can't read the multisession CD I just made




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This article is from the CD-Recordable FAQ, by Andy McFadden (fadden@fadden.com) with numerous contributions by others.

4-3] I can't read the multisession CD I just made

(1998/04/06)

The SCSI driver needs to believe that the CD-ROM drive can handle
multisession discs. Most likely you will need to update your SCSI drivers
before this will work.

(This problem was reported with an HP4020i and a Buslogic BT946C controller;
if you have an HP drive you should get the c4324hlp.vxd driver from the HP
web site. See section 6 for the address.)

One possible cause of this problem is writing a multisession disc in MODE-1
format. Some older CD-ROM drives incorrectly assume that a MODE-1 disc
can't be multisession, so they don't look for additional sessions unless
it's written in MODE-2 (CD-ROM/XA) format.

Also, if the final session on the CD isn't closed, standard CD players may
become confused (the NEC 6Xi certainly does under Win95). This doesn't
mean that the *disc* must be closed, just that the *session* must be
closed. (Actually, the NEC 6Xi doesn't like open discs either... sigh.)

A note on one of the Ricoh pages indicates that the Ricoh 1420C is unable
to read sessions smaller than 3 minutes (about 26MB) until firmware 1.6x.


 

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