[Paranoia] CD Ripping Uncertainty Principle?

Alec Wood alecwood at cs.uchicago.edu
Tue Sep 28 13:32:18 PDT 2004


Thus spake Monty:
> 
> Older versions of Paranoia (version 2) would attempt to track
> 'unstable' bits in individual samples and implemented 'loose' matching
> to accomidate this.  Paranoia 3 didn;t do it this way primarily
> because it caused bad reads on some drives.  The dangers of heuristics
> :-)

Couldn't one just test to see if the drive was a Plextor and use this
feature conditionally?  Or at least get some C2 reporting?  Seems like
there must be enough paranoia users with Plextors to make such an effort
worthwhile.  Hmmm, maybe I've got myself a new hobby...

-Alec


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