Dan G wrote:
As to C1, there are no specs for these, and no upper limit has ever been
documented that interferes with reading a disc. C2 errors are bad, there
should not be any, but again fairly high C2 levels are often tolerated.
C1/C2 are speed-relative, the faster you scan the disc the higher the levels
will be.

The Red Book specifies a maximum BLER of 220 per second averaged over
10 seconds. BLER (BLock Error Rate) indicates the number of data blocks
with C1 errors.

In the FAQ, see:

Subject: [2-43-3] What's a frame? CIRC encoding? How does ECC work?

Sixth paragraph ("Errors are noted ...").


There was a nice article he

http://www.emedialive.com/EM2000/starrett5.html

But it's gone. You can still find it here, though the formatting was a
little weird for me in Firefox:

http://web.archive.org/web/200310031...starrett5.html

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