Try clonecd with a non-plextor drive. It should read single errors and the error sectors are 5 sectors apart, or a multiple of 5 sectors IIRC. That's how you'll know if the dump is correct.
I got hold of an Optiarc drive, and I'm currently dumping the disc with that. Right now I'm using Alcohol, but I plan to try CloneCD and probably CD Manipulator as well.
Right now it looks there's...kind of a pattern? Maybe multiple patterns separated by larger groups of good sectors? It starts off with 3 bad sectors, 8 good sectors, 3 bad sectors.
But then there're 23 good sectors and a pattern starts with 3 good, 3 bad, 3 good.
Then 23 good sectors and a pattern of 3 bad, 13 good, 3 bad, 8 good, 3 bad, 3 good...
There's definitely some kinda pattern. I'll look at it in more detail once it's done and post an update. And, as I said, I'll dump in other software as well.
Edit: The Alcohol read got done. Errors look like they're always groups of three, and lots of sectors that were reported as "bad" by my Asus weren't reported bad here. Based on the description here, though, it sounds like maybe the Asus rip is good? At initial glance, it looks like all the Asus errors are in groups of 5, 10, or 15 sectors. So, if they're meant to be a multiple of 5, that sounds right. But then the Optiarc has substantially fewer errors...all groups of 3 with varying distances between them.
Edit 2: Here is the list of bad sectors from CDMage for both the Asus and the Optiarc: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8eu918bz0jg07 … 20.7z?dl=0. The Asus has 3779 bad sectors, in groups of 5, 10, or 15. The Optiarc has 2281 bad sectors, in groups of 3.
Edit 3: If I look at one of the sectors that the Asus errors on but the Optiarc doesn't, like sector 2464 for example, the data section is all 0. If I look at one near there that they both read successfully, like 2466, it's all 0 also.
Edit 4: Using CD Manipulator, I got 2,274 errors. I think each error is a three sector block. 2,274 / 3 = 758, which is the number of errors for one of the European releases of Tropico: http://redump.org/disc/53929/. Is that just a coincidence, though?