Sector 214892

[Voltaire]

I just made a copy of a Safedisc v2 protected program. I believe Safedisc protection is used up to and including sector 10000.

I did a sector comparison of the original CD against the copied CD and the sectors are identical up to 214892. From 214893 to the last sector are different.

Any ideas?

Voltaire

[podunkviller]

1. you read it too fast

2. the last sector is 214894 or so

did you check this by hand? or did you diff the file?

[Voltaire]

Thanks for the reply.

I used CDRWin to make the copy with and since it was only the trial version it read/wrote at 1x.

I checked the sectors by hand and the last sector is around 311000.

How do you personally do a diff on a CD? I've used CDCheck. Is there a better way?

Voltaire

[podunkviller]

i dont know, as im not sure windows supports diff, and i dont have a unix pc around that i'm allowed more than 10 mb of space on, so i cant diff two iso's. by hand would be a pain in the a**. i guess the bigger question - did your copy work? perhaps (big guess) the laser got a sector off aroudn there, and all your values are the same, but with a few misplaced ones in the gap? just hazarding a guess.

[Voltaire]

Possibly got a sector off like you suggested. The CD appears to work fine and I'm just being obsessive!

Thanks again!

[themis_t]

podun keeps it up....