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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:33:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, oppermann@pipeline.ch, abial@nask.pl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: backport of atapi-cd to -STABLE
Message-ID:  <199809231833.UAA07940@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199809232014.NAA03628@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 23, 98 01:14:40 pm

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> > Jitter correction is for the crappy (older) CD-ROMs.. Some sort of a thing
> > about the lens jittering during use that can cause problems with generating
...
> Jitter correction has to do with fixing up the raw audio data, it has 
> nothing to do with the digital side of things.  "len jitter" wouldn't 
> affect the audio data - when a bit comes off the disk it's either a 1 
> or a 0, and it either passes the DRS check or it's fixed if it's wrong.

to clarify, the so-called jitter correction in "cdd" serves for those
drives whose firmware does not guarantee that the data you get from the
disk are for the block you requests and instead could give you data for
a nearby block (presumably, but this is just an assumption, from time
to time the firmware misses a block and passes you the next one).

the way to do the correction is to read overlapped sections from the
disk and compare the boundary block to make sure that they overlap as
expected. On a drive that does not need jitter correction you lose a
lot of speed.

	cheers
	luigi



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