Looking for tips on CDR burning

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Rich Braun wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 RB> CDROM's clearly lack the redundant bits necessary to recover
 RB> data lost to physical damage.  I'm baffled at why these
 RB> CDROM-mastering and -reading programs fail to put any fault
 RB> tolerance onto the media.  I ought to be able to torment a
 RB> CD with a stapler, ball-point pen, power sander, and other
 RB> weapons of destruction and still be able to salvage all the
 RB> data.  My guess is that with the track density of DVD's,
 RB> fault tolerance will be an absolute must.

Actually, CDs have a great deal of redundant data for fault tolerance. 
However, it was originally assumed that they would be storing Red Book audio,
not computer data.  Even with computer data, about 20% of the raw data is there
only to provide error correction, about 2.5 KB for each 2.0 KB sector.
 
-- Mike


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