At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard CD's can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room on the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a more intelligent coding of disc addresses... Breaking compatibility wouldn't be too useful, but it
sure would be fun.
And think of the ulcers you would cause the TLAs! Assuming they got your disks and not your custom drive...
Now you simply can't do it.
There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to allow or export this flexibility. Since very few customers are sick enough :-) to want to invent their own incompatible formats it simply isn't worth their development-engineering time or end-product resources (eg gates) in such a commodity product.