OS/2

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 18 14:16:04 2001

! >Same experience here. i've made copies of IRIX CDs, and I've made
! >non-standard bootable distribution CDs. The only unusual
! >feature is that
! >they're an EFS filesystem rather than, say, ISO9660. But as far as a
! >burner is concerned, an image is an image, and as far as
! >Linux's dd command
! >is concerned, the same is true (I've copied Apple CDs the
! >same way, by
! >dd'ing from the raw disk device holding the CD, to a file.).
!
! Humm... but this still won't work for PSX game discs right?
! Since they
! have a bad checksum, a standard burner can't write them back
! out, because
! it will correct the checksum?
!
! What I don't understand is, why can't someone write a program
! that will
! write the back check? I used to have a floppy disk copier for the Mac
! that did something similar. If the source disk was damaged, it would
! write the damaged data to the destination disk (the software
! was SUPPOSED
! to do that, it was to let you duplicate bad disks before
! running things
! like MacTools on it, in case it didn't work, you could dupe
! it again, and
! try something different)
!
! Alas, that software was for back in the "Classic Mac" era,
! and no longer
! runs (nor has any idea how to write to a CD)
!
! -c
!

I heard that CloneCD is what you're talking about...


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