Dennis Myers wrote:

On Sunday 17 November 2002 09:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

We all know what the effect of fixating is, but what actually is
the physical process of fixation. For instance, what if anything,
is the lazer doing to the newly etched track.

John

This doesn't really answer the question of what the laser is really doing but....... To fixate a CD (close a writable CD by writing its permanent table of contents), simply remove the wa or wd directory. The directory removed selects whether the CD is fixated as an audio or data CD; since each track carries its own type information, very few readers care which fixation type was used. Writing the permanent TOC effectively closes the CD as I understand it. HTH

Yes, that's how it seems, I don't think the writer is actually doing anything more
than writing a TOC file, whether final or partial, depending whether you want the
whole disc fixed or only partially fixed. However I have never found an explanation
it is only a feeling based on observing the process at work.

John

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