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by ralferoo
319 days ago
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> On the other hand I'm still puzzled why there are no homebrew projects for a dumb dumping device that simply reads all the data on a cdrom, error correction, subchannels completely raw. I think you'd have to write a custom firmware for one specific drive for that. That information is simply not exposed outside the device itself on standard drives, which is what makes it effective for copy protection. |
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A more pragmatic solution would be to use an ESP32 or an RPI2040, wire them to a "donor" cd drive and then implement just the most basic MMC commands to make sense of the disc layout and save to disk the binary stream.
I'm pretty sure I'm missing something extremely obvious given the lack of similar attempts; wouldn't be surprised if not a single readily available programmable microcontroller on the market has the necessary bandwidth for this task.