[HN Gopher] The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM A...
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       The Working Archivist's Guide to Enthusiast CD-ROM Archiving Tools
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-09-16 02:05 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.mistys-internet.website)
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | At one time I believed some aspects of coding were attempts at
       | copy protection: coding drivers to ignore some class of error
       | condition at "layer 2" so that an incorrect image could be seen
       | by the reader and the byte stream passed up.
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       | But now, with a hanlons razor in my hand, I now think these may
       | just be unbelievably badly encoded disks, with things like the
       | article notes: overruns of data into audio frames, checksum
       | errors put in by the master.
        
       | aidenn0 wrote:
       | While I am mildly disappointed that redumper[1] doesn't support
       | low-level reading of DVDs, I have to say I'm super impressed that
       | the README is very clear about what it does, and does not, do.
       | 
       | 1: https://github.com/superg/redumper (linked from TFA).
        
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