From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 10 01:17:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA01723 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA01715 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:17:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA24906 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:16:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA22711; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:50:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:50:56 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2303 & kern/2423 CDs and BCD numbers - its 99 DECIMAL not HEX References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Frank Durda IV on Jan 9, 1997 21:52:00 -0500 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Durda IV wrote: > [0]looks like I'll finally go and see if I can get a fireware upgrade for my > [0]two chinon drives... > > Except that the Red Book (all praise Philips and Sony) says quite > clearly: [...that the track number is in BCD on the disk, yes, we know.] > Now, there are plenty of makes of CD-ROM drives that return info to > the host in BCD, and this is because most of the fields on the actual disk > are in BCD. Yes, but SCSI requires the drive to return it as an integer value. Any drive returning BCD is violating the specs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)