[ILUG] Backup Game CDROM?

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:17:53AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John Allen thought:
> 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,
> >
> > > Some games use deliberate bad sectors as a copyprotection mechanism.  I
> > > suspect this is what you've encountered.
> >
> > floppy.  Next test is 'dd conv=noerror,sync' to see if that gives a
> > matching size of image.

So that didn't work.  Got an iso of matching size that looked fine when
mounted but various files were empty that shouldn't have been.
 
> try readcd (k3b uses it to clone cds)

I'll check that out, thanks.

After that, it's a matter of writing to EA and asking for a non defective
CD so that I can back it up.

Conor
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