> 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?
hmm, that's interesting, yes - i've recovered many mds (normal, not hi-)
whose tocs had been lost for whatever reason via my md deck and a process
similar to the one that jpbeale describes, but never come up against the
scenario you describe. now what i'm wondering is if that is simply because=
the discs i've recovered have been dics to which i've done no
editing/moving/separating/joining of tracks, so that indeed the data i
recovered was in the order i expected to find it in, ie the order in which=
the source material was originally recorded. perhaps a disc whose contents=
have been more heavily manipulated, and whose toc has then been lost, might=
provide a more interesting if less successful recovery outcome... : )
> Thought #2 - if it's this easy to recover a TOC, why can't Sony do it?
we're talking about normal mds here - sony i'm sure could recover those,
although it has no need, since the technique is widely (well, semi-widely)=
available to the public. the problem in question is with hi-md, for which,=
so far as i know, no consumer recovery technique has been found, and
apparently sony has no special tricks either. why hi-md is more complicate=
d
that normal md i don't know - perhaps a difference in how the system files=
are created/structured, or perhaps something to do with their ridiculous
copyright protection efforts in relation to uploading...
best,
patrick
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