jpbeale wrote:
> Not entirely. The battery died in one of my MD recorders after about 2
> hours of recording, so the TOC wasn't updated or finalized. But I was
> saved! There is a procedure online (I think someone on this list told
> me about it) to trick the Portadisc into loading the TOC from a
> fully-recorded disc, yanking the power, swapping MDs with the power
> off (some disassembly required), turning it on again whereupon a valid
> TOC is written to the damaged disc, which can then be played as usual
> (the chapters won't be there, but that hardly matters). I performed
> this procedure and it worked perfectly to recover my entire recording.
Very interesting, but ... Unless one sneaked by while I wasn't
looking, all disk recording formats use the available space on the disk
no matter where it is and except for a brand new or newly formatted
disk, the files are not always contiguous. So, tricking a disk without a
TOC to play using an unrelated TOC you'd think the playback would jump
in and out of the files instead of playing each file from start to
finish. Did this happen to you?
Thought #2 - if it's this easy to recover a TOC, why can't Sony do it?
Thought #3 - when the power went off on your MD, some kind of
proto-TOC had been written and all it needed was a generic procedure to
make it valid, which you did with your workaround. That leaves us with
the same question about Sony - if you could do it, why couldn't they?
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