On Saturday 04 June 2005 08:08 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Asa Rossoff wrote: > > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > >> Mikkel, I tried both those commands and still get the same error > >> message: > >> > >> dd: reading `/dev/scd0': Input/output error > >> 220196+0 records in > >> 220196+0 records out > >> > >> Since every effort I have made stops at an iso of 430.1 mb size, (the > >> CD is 530 mb) then I'm going to assume the dead track theory is correct. > >> > >> Thanks for your help though! > >> > >> PS I tried some other CDs and it works - so there is nothing wrong > >> with my setup, just that darned game CD. :-) > > > > Interesting.. It would be nice if there was a way to cop y a cd with > > errors on it, as (dare I say it) most Windows tools can. > > > > One idea that comes to mind, is to copy what you can to an iso file, and > > then use another dd command with an offset that goes past where you left > > off (so it starts a little past where it stopped), and save that to a > > seperate file.. This might take some experimentation to see how much > > past that spot you have to go. Append some nuls to the first file (the > > number of bytes you had to skip on the cd), then append the second file > > to that file. Try burning that -- it should work like the first one. > > The error might be copy protection, and it's conceivable that the game > > actually checks to make sure it gets an error accessing that sector or > > track... But barring that it checks for the error, it should work as > > good as the original. > > > > Asa > > What Windows program will allow you to copy CD's with errors in them? > The ones I have tries would abort the copy when running into > non-recoverable read errors. Somehow, I din't think they would be using > this form of copy protection if Windows programs could get around it > that easy. I saw something over on torrentspy but don't remember the name something like this http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?query=ISO+Buster&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 > > Mikkel
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