[ILUG] Backup Game CDROM?

[John Allen]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:25, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:15:18PM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
>
> Colm Buckley thought:
> > 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.
>
> I guess so.  Now the question is, what will give me a bit for bit copy,
> bad sectors and all?  Currently testing 'dd conv=noerror' on a dodgy
> floppy.  Next test is 'dd conv=noerror,sync' to see if that gives a
> matching size of image.
>

try readcd (k3b uses it to clone cds)

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John Allen,                          Email:  mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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