[rescue] I just saw this from an old SGI page... it has me slightly worried since...

George Adkins rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Jan 4 18:08:19 CST 2002


On Friday 04 January 2002 11:13 am, you wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Nero works great for this - so far.  Haven't seen a CD I couldn't dupe. 
> > It must do a bit-for-bit burn, rather than attempting to *read* the data
> > to burn it...
>
> Nero is great, but I don't know about the bit-for-bit.  I use Blindread
> and Blindwrite for bitwise CD copies since this program outperforms even
> dd.  It is designed to nibble slowly at copy protection bad sectors and
> write them out as it sees them exactly to disk + subcodes and other stuff.
> It may take up to 6 hours to read some disks but the copies are excellent.

Strange, I tried making copies of the IRIX 6.2 CD's with Blindread and 
Blindwrite, and they seemed to be unreadable.



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