When you record a CD, all data is written into the current
session. After you have finished writing, you close the session.
If you want to make a multisession disc, you open a new session
at the same time. If you don't open a new session then, you
can't open one later, which means that it's impossible to add
more data to the CD-R. The entire disc is considered "closed".
When your CD recording software says that it is "fixing", "fixating"
or "finalizing", all it does is terminating the end of useful data
area by either zeroing out what's left on the CD or marking
the end of session in some other way depending on a format used
(audio, iso9660, HPFS etc.)
> I can still read the 650 meg CD-RW media on which
> the "Fixating..." has gone beserk. I even can read
> the CD-RW media on my x32 ide CD-ROM drive,
> which I gather is a special bonus blessing...
It's okay for personal use but not when making a master CD for mass
end user production when the product will be used by thousands
of people with different CDROM drive models.
> Could someone verify that I should use SPEED=2
> for CD-RW media and SPEED=4 for CD-R media
> on my Yamaha CRW-4260 cd recorder?
I use Yamaha CDR-100 which is much older than yours and it can do
4x reads and writes on Macintosh and 2x writes and 4x reads on Win95.
It should be able to do 4x writing on Linux in single user mode
and as few daemons and interfaces running when there's nothing to
compete for CPU resources and memory cache. You can even try to
do 6x writing speed on yours, if your SCSI card is high end PCI,
your recorder is the first in the chain and supports 6x writing.
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