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Poster: | festering leper | Date: | Jan 28, 2003 10:08am |
Forum: | macromedia | Subject: | Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments? |
i've been noticing raw-mode problems more lately and it got me wondering if drive manufacturers, who try to cater to everyone they can, are making cdr/w drives with larger and less tested featuresets ("we'll put a flash update later, if we hear from people on problem 'x', this drive's gotta ship now")
one of my drives (sony crx-175e) can't make a raw-mode copy of my windows xp disk without corruption but can rip audio cd's with EAC just fine :/ i'm not aware on any protection on the original media and dumping the track in iso format works flawlessly every time from the same disk. the files in question are 2 small *.cat files buried in a deep subdirectory. they copy off the disk just fine but the contents are corrupt. another instance was a few friends and i have been doing work on bootable recovery cdroms and i've gotten a couple of raw-mode image files from one of them that had corrupt files but the problem went away if the same disk was extracted to an iso. i haven't trusted the bin/cue format much since then. i know the bin/cue format itself is not flawed or directly to blame for what i've experienced, but it's not very robust either.
a lot of people don't know what can happen and that's the only reason i brought it up, because of personal experience with it. i'd hate for the people here to image a pile of disks and notice subtle problems later :(
i've seen drivers floating around the net that allow one to write a cd in mode2 and put data on it. not me :)
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Poster: | Wendell | Date: | Jan 28, 2003 12:51pm |
Forum: | macromedia | Subject: | Re: proposal for CD-ROM archive - comments? |
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