Disk error

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 00:45:15 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 16:54 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
> Don't forget that some DVDs (particularly ones made by Sony) have some
> deliberately corrupted sectors in them that will cause IO errors on 
> anything but an approved DVD player (they know to skip past them).

You're thinking of prerecorded DVD movies, and the problem isn't the
physical sector but the deliberately incorrect index information in some
video files. Note that DVD drives in PCs can play these movies perfectly
well.

This has nothing to do with the case in hand, which is of a non-DRM DVD
data image recorded by the user.

poc




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