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How does a CD drive know where to look on a CD?
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How does a CD drive know where data is on a CD, for example if the computer asks for data at a certain location, how does the reader know physically where that is on the disc? Is there some decided "map" of CDs that every manufacturer follows? Basically what determines how far along the radius the …
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It knows where it is on the CD the same way it knows where it is on a hard drive. There is a filesystem on the CD, the CD drive will go all the way in and start reading the first bytes of information from the first track (The MBR would be a analogus…
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