When Act444 said that "basic units" do not clone TOCs, I replied that that
depends how one defines "basic," and if by "basic" one means units that don't
clone TOCs, well, there was no disputing it. Colin quoted my next paragraph:
T> However, not all MD recorders fit that definition of "basic," and on most
T> Sony decks [the JE320, JE500, and JE510 being notable exceptions] one can
T> recover a deleted track even after the TOC has been updated to save the
T> deletion.
and he commented,
B> But all these decks still require entering test mode (with the possible
B> exception of the JE700) to recover deleted tracks.
The JE700, as I remember, still requires entering test mode; it does not need
another disc as a source to get a single full-disc untitled stereo track into
TOC RAM (we never did find out the SCMS status of the 700's recoveries) be-
cause it can generate the data with its own firmware.
B> This is beyond the scope of normal usage ...
Agreed, because unlike "basic unit," "normal usage" has a definition other
than a circular reference to what you're trying to say about "normal usage":
you can define it as "functions described in the user manual," and thus say
that Sony already has deemed TOC cloning an unusual usage by omitting it from
the user manual. (They have a good reason: people can really screw things up
in service mode, if not in test mode.) "Basic unit" had no external defini-
tion and meant whatever hardware Act personally considered basic.
B> ... so by that definition the JE320, 500, and 510 are also
B> capable of recovering deleted material, but require the extra step of
B> disassembly and manual operation of the loading mechanism.
Point taken. Then change "being notable exceptions" to "requiring disassem-
bly to accomplish the task" in my previous post.
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