README.PlexDAE

Plextor CD-ROM digital audio extraction for cdrdao

These patches enhance "cdrdao" with bitwise-exact digital audio extraction
for "Plextor"-brand CD-ROM drives.

It uses Plextor vendor unique SCSI command enhancements in order to
implement this. These features are not known to exist in other
brand drives (by me, as of 25-3-1999), or to be exploited in any
other software at this moment.

Status is alpha, and there are some known bugs and things to do.

Currently known bugs:

- Incremental extraction of a CDDA block (by collecting correct samples
in successive reads of a partly errenous CDDA block) is known to fail
in some cases (leading to non-unique CDDA extraction).

Current things to do:

- Include output formats other than raw (big-endian).
- Include output to stdio (for on-the-fly application maybe).
- ...

Usage hints:

This clones a CD-DA as exactly as possible (but see known bugs!):

cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sga --datafile data.cdr data.toc
cdrdao write --swap --device /dev/sgb data.toc 

You may want to do a "md5sum" of "data.cdr" on two successive reads
to ensure the known bug did not occur.

Leon Woestenberg <leon@stack.nl>