In article , Joe Kesselman wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
That's what the filesystem is for!

Yep. What gets onto disk is not necessarily just the bits you provided.
I _think_ data CD filesystems do carry some error correction coding, but
I'd have to dig out the spec or consult my nonresident expert to be sure.

CD-ROM has an extra ECC layer beyond audio CD at the hardware level. At
the filesystem level there is no additional ECC or EDC.

-- Adam