Philip Prindeville wrote: > I didn't find any way to turn on or manipulate ECC on optical drives > (dvd and cd drives) via hdparm (or anywhere else for that matter). > > Am I missing something? Or should a bug be filed? I thought optical drives had *huge* amounts of ECC that was inherent in the way the CD format was specified. And a drive that doesn't do ECC won't be able to read the disks. http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/cd-rom/cdrom_spec.htm tallies with my memory. So it should always be on, regardless of OS. James. -- E-mail address: james | "I never really understood how there could be things @westexe.demon.co.uk | that would drive you insane just because you knew | them until I ran into Windows." | -- Peter da Silva
