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Title: Secure Ripping with Flaky Drive
Post by: Jakester on November 23, 2004, 10:13:35 pm

Is there any way an unreliable drive could fool Secure Mode such that it would report a good rip and not actually give a perfect rip?

Or does it always re-read at least once, in sufficiently large chunks, and force the results to be truly identical such that the chance of a flaky drive giving the identical, but wrong, data twice is essentially null?

Matt?  JimH?  Anyone!   ?   ::)

Title: Re:Secure Ripping with Flaky Drive
Post by: Jakester on November 29, 2004, 04:04:07 pm

bump

Title: Re:Secure Ripping with Flaky Drive
Post by: Matt on November 29, 2004, 05:02:05 pm

Quote from: Jakester on November 23, 2004, 10:13:35 pm

Or does it always re-read at least once, in sufficiently large chunks, and force the results to be truly identical such that the chance of a flaky drive giving the identical, but wrong, data twice is essentially null?

That's the idea.  MC reads everything at least twice.  It also does a really good job of side-stepping any caching the drive might do.

So, if the rip isn't bit-perfect, it'll show up in the secure rip report.

Title: Re:Secure Ripping with Flaky Drive
Post by: Jakester on December 01, 2004, 11:02:59 am

Thanks Matt.