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[ILUG] Backup Game CDROM?

[ILUG] Backup Game CDROM?

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Wed Jan 21 20:15:18 GMT 2004

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On 21 Jan 2004, at 12:01, Conor Daly wrote:

> I'm trying to backup a game CDROM using dd and cdrecord and using 
> cdrdao. [...]

Some games use deliberate bad sectors as a copyprotection mechanism.  I 
suspect this is what you've encountered.

	Colm

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