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Hey sarami, did that Skidoo game arrive yet?

You haven't been paying attention I guess, there is a buffer read command that bypasses this issue and was implemented. However it needs to read more than 1 sector, which still needs to be addressed.

Should probably check the sector mode too? I've gotten this on a few discs.

It's a 6, that's my discalculia, sorry.

sarami did you pick up that Ski-doo X team racing disc yet? I'm curious, would like to be able to dump this one.

UTC is the standard and should be followed, local times mean nothing. The moderators should have disc images and can spend the time fixing the things that were added incorrectly, it will take ages, but it should be done. It could possibly even be automated, but... I'm not going into that.

Do we know what the pattern really is? For that and for safedisc?

Sweet, now we just need the rest.

It is, the first sector usually has something other than 00 in it.

Some luck on some more sectors for ASUS BW-16D1HT ?

I tested this drive a bit now, it's not really good at C2 errors, I think it caches and doesn't ever re-read. Could you look into that sarami?

IDA?

I just haven't done any testing yet to see if SafeDisc is reliably dumpable and verifyable, I suspect the single byte (312) is like CDS and an intentional weak sector that the hardware can't read correctly.  I can test this with some of my Need For Speed games as I have several copies of the same disc and I now have 10 plextors to do testing with.

I mean that would be a huge pain to redump all safedisc, I'm not opposed to this but I think some people would be. I am more interested in dumping correctly though. It causes a lot of heated argument but we're getting on the same page mostly now. This is not an issue for me because I keep all discs, but this presents a problem where large parts of the db would be instantly invalidated, however I don't have issue with that. I do understand that others will. However I am in favor of as accurate as possible dumping, regardless of having to go do stuff again if it's found wrong. I have been redumping already my entire collection with DIC without a single complaint, and glad to do it. SafeDisc protection does not check for the bad sectors at all, they are just there to prevent copying easily,which is a bit silly since it's been easily defeated since early 2000's, so I don't think it really matters much when it comes to using the images, but is that preservation?

I guess we will have to work with what he have, and we can change things in the future when we have methods and hardware to do better. Eventually we *will* have means to dump entire discs linearly and we'll need a special image format for it. Until then we keep going as we are now.

Anyways back on topic, there should be no "correction" or "fixing" things imo, and that includes subchannel data. Too many discs have intentional errors, and too many drives/windows do not fix these errors when reading the disc, particularly edc/ecc errors.