From: Jason Rennie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>Hi all,
>
>This is more of a technical hardware question, rather than a
>linux centric
>one, but i dont think it is off-topic for the slug list.
>
>I was trying to make a back up copy of a game cd i have (Roller Coaster
>Tycoon specifically), and when the disk is put in the burner,
>and tried to
>be accessed from xcdroast (and adeptec easy cd creator as well i might
>add) it says that there is no cd in the drive. But of course
>the cd runs
>fine from the cdrom.
>
>When i tried to get around this with a dd, it choked a couple
>of tracks in
>and died.
>
>Any idea what has been done to this CD to make it work like this ?
If the CD doesn't work from CDR but works from the CDROM outside of a
"burning" program then run a cleaner through your CDR - it's probably got a
dirty lens or something.
If it only fails when you are trying to copy it then there is probably a bad
sector on the disk somewhere. Do a quick search on the web - there's
usually good advice somewhere on how to create backup versions of disks.
John Wiltshire
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