Re: [NTLK] newtontalk Digest V2 #283

From: Edward Gray (stryfe_at_cs.bu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 15:00:54 EDT


Thomas Cherry wrote:

> Why would your computer crash. Why would it not just throw an error. If
I
> understand what Sony wants to do, they are going to put small errors in
the
> disks that will cause the CD-R laser to miss read data. Should be just
the
> same as if there was a large scratch on the disk. I agree that this
action
> the industry wants to make is horrible, but I don't agree with your theory
> of crashing.

from what I understand, the anti-standardness of these new "CD"s can be
enough to confuse the drive at a firmware level, making the drive unstable,
then possibly the HD controller bus becomes unstable, which could certainly
result in the system becoming unstable/crashing/etc.

technically even possible to corrupt parts of the drive's firmware, although
I'm not entirely sure how likely that is. but, if the drive's firmware did
become messed up, it's quite possible that the drive would never work again
(barring replacement of the firmware chip) and, by extension, the system
might cease to function as long as that broken drive was installed.

guess it would depend on how ardently religious (or agnostic) a particular
drive is about the strict CD specs...

</conjecture>

anyway, as someone else pointed out, the albums showing up in retail with
this wonderful new feature, are hardly the sort of music I'd ever be caught
dead listening to anyway. i.e. I have no first-hand proof, and I'm not
likely to have any in future ;-)

cheers
-E

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