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- From: rseymour@reed.edu (Robert Seymour)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Caddyless CD-ROM Drives for the Mac?
- Keywords: CD, caddy, CD300i, Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.022058.3245@reed.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 02:20:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov10.022058.3245
- References: <1992Nov9.195547.14783@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov9.195547.14783@cs.ucla.edu> tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom
- Johnson) writes:
- > Does anyone know of any CD-ROM drives (preferably the newer, faster
- > models that support multi-session Photo CD) that don't require
- > those stupid disk caddies? I'd like something with a sliding drawer
- > or one like the in-dash audio players - that slurps it in
- > automatically.
- >
- > For that matter, why are they so ubiquitous in the data world and
- > so conspicuously absent from the audio world. I can't believe that it's
- > to protect the disk - they get as much (or more) wear from being
- > loaded into the caddies, I would think.
- >
- > Thanks-
- > Tom
- > --
- > Tom Johnson "They say Confucious does his crossword with a pen."
- > tj@cs.ucla.edu -Tori Amos
-
- It's not to protect the disk, but to ensure higher accuracy in reads.
- If the disk moves even slightly, bits will register wrong (i.e. the beam won't
- reflect back directly into the sensor). The reason these aren't as prevalent in
- audio CD players is that it doesn't matter if you miss a bit on an audio
- recording, you can't tell the difference (8 bits at 44.1MHz, which is around
- 150K/sec, all of which goes into the sound output).
- However, in computers, each bit is crutial, hence the caddy. I wouldn't
- suggest buying a player that doesn't have a caddy, since most people don't
- change disks very often anyway (it's a pain, but so are bad reads from large
- files). Also, currently the only player to support multi-session Kodak Photo CD
- is Apple's CD300i, though more are expected based on the same Sony mechanism.
- Some other players currently support Photo CD, but won't accept images after
- the first session.
-
- --
- Robert Seymour rseymour@reed.edu
- Departments of Physics and Philosophy
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