Hey everyone I have some questions (and I hope I am in the right forum, if not can someone let me know where I can get the best answers either in here on this forum or some links?). I am looking to see if anyone is familiar with Lead-In/Lead-Out. What exactly does it do? And how about if we don't have it what do we do if we are trying to make a torrent? I know my hardware isn't that old (1.5 years) and if I check the Lead-In and Lead-Out I get errors, but if I don't check it, everything is fine. Someone was also telling me there are tests to see or check it out if your diver has it or doesn't, does anyone know of any of tests? Do we really need it? Can it be fixed? Thank you in advance
nice headline ; ) from answers.com lead-in The first part of a CD-R recording session, which starts 25 mm from the dead center of the disc and takes up 4,500 sectors. The table of contents is written into the lead-in when the session is closed. Its purpose is to allow the drive to synchronize and to hold the table of contents. If the disc is not closed, it contains the address of the next session. Contrast with lead-out. lead-out A group of sectors written at the end of a CD-R recording session that indicates the end of the data. The lead-out is always toward the outer edge of the disc. The first lead-out is 6,750 sectors, and all subsequent ones are 2,250 sectors. Contrast with lead-in. ---------------------------------------------------------- It seems at least useful to have the lead-in/lead-out, it tells your devices what's on the disc and where to find it. It sounds like a pc might be able to read the disc and find this out for itself. I know if you make an audio cd you need it for a cd player to read the disc so it functions correctly. There's probably a level of intelligence devices have that can detect what's on the disc without it, but not all devices have this intelligence. My audio cds used to mess up on the lead-out and in most cases slowing down the write speed helped, but the main problem I had, in theory, was the media I was using. I can't find any information on lead-in drive tests, maybe someone else can help you with it.
