[paranoia] toshiba xm-6702b workaround

[Miroslav Lichvar]

Hi,

i have xm-6702b toshiba drive, it's good, but it has some firmware bug
(xm-6602b propably too), sectors 67178 and 224618 are never read good at
normal speed reading, but when i switch to low speed and use cdparanoia with
full checking, it reads these two sectors good in about 80% cases.

So i wrote simple, dirty prog in C (libc dependent) using cdparanoia
for riping CD's with these drives for 100% perfect result (with offset
handling too). It reads these `magic' sectors several times at low speed, if
results are same, it's ok.

It's available at http://alpha.inf.upol.cz/~lichvarm/src/tg.c
and i also write some scripts for multi-cd OTF cdrdaoing using this workaround.
(http://alpha.inf.upol.cz/~lichvarm/src/cbftools.tar.gz)

As it works on my Linux box well, maybe some other owner of xm-6[67]02b find
it usefull.


-- 
Miroslav Lichvar
mirator at upcase.inf.upol.cz

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