I'm trying to create a deployment tool that will install software based on the hardware found on a system. I'd like the tool to be able to determine if the optical drive is a writer (to determine if burning software sould be installed) or can read DVDs (to determine if a player should be installed). I tried uing the following code strC...
I have backups of files archived in optical media (CDs and DVDs). These all have par2 recovery files, stored on separate media. Even in cases where there are no par2 files, minor errors when reading on one optical drive can be read fine on another drive. The thing is, when reading faulty media, the read time is very, very long, because ...
When reading files off of a hard drive, mmap is generally regarded as a good way to quickly get data into memory. When working with optical drives, accesses take more time and you have a higher latency to worry about. What approach/abstraction do you use to hide/eliminate as much latency and/or overall load time of the optical drive as p...