99min Media can be written with existing CDR-W drives?
"...A list of compatible burners will be presented in the next few days. Some burners (like the Mitsumi 4004) can burn up to 99:05 mins without problems, others (like Teac CD-W54 and I think also the PlexWriters) go up to a max of 90 mins. Others stop at 84 mins. Also some audio-CD-Players have Problems, but Joerg Schilling said in a german newsgroup, that his 15 year old Philips could manage a 99 min. CD without any trouble..."
Some additional techical info: The way ATIP is encoded, it is 2 BCD bytes. (BCD = binary coded decimal). The thing is, that the high bit of the MSF in ATIP is a problem. The high bit is used to represent the type of data on that particular ATIP entry. This is why 80 minute media says 79:59 since there is no way to say 80:.
You can write 99min media if the drive can overburn. Even if you overburn, 99 minute media can be unreadable by some drives (HP 8100 for example).." NULL
Some additional techical info: The way ATIP is encoded, it is 2 BCD bytes. (BCD = binary coded decimal). The thing is, that the high bit of the MSF in ATIP is a problem. The high bit is used to represent the type of data on that particular ATIP entry. This is why 80 minute media says 79:59 since there is no way to say 80:.
You can write 99min media if the drive can overburn. Even if you overburn, 99 minute media can be unreadable by some drives (HP 8100 for example).." NULL