Problems dumping one audio track

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Problems dumping one audio track

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I was trying to dump a pc game (Quake II: Ground Zero)  but EAC has having problems dumping the last audio track.
When the extraction of the track is at 22%, EAC starts doing error correction then sometimes it reports error (when the 4 rows of red lights lighten up) or EAC freezes and the disc keeps spinning in the drive.
Anyone knows how to solve this?
Ah... i forgot to mention that the disc is as new.

Thanks.
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track

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try to speed down the drive (nero drivespeed or ddump method)
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I think that the speed in this drive can't be reduced manually.
I recall trying a lot of methods when i was trying to get all the libcrypt sectors in 1 psx game and i had no luck back then...
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ok, then just use ddump, set it to 1x in settings, start the dumping, let it rip 1-2%, then abort dumping and the drive will stay in slow spinning after it. Then you can use EAC to dump the last track.
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I tested that and it doesn't work. It doesn't matter the speed i choose, the drive reads always at 1900kb/s ( i tried in the dos prompt and in the frontend).
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Have you tried seeing if maybe there is a firmware update that might fix that issue for that drive?
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I flashed the drive to the latest firmware (1.10) long time ago.
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sometimes IsoBuster might work better
but you'd have to extract data on multiple drives to be sure
and align it manually
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Maybe your drive doesn't support overreading into lead-out and the combined offset for this disc is positive? If so, it's normal - that's why overreading is a must for a good dump, you won't be able to dump this disc with this drive.
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The offset of this disc is 0 (i'm dumping it with +48) and this drive supports overreading (but only for the lead-out) and the Isobuster solution didn't work (reports errors), but this is definitily a drive issue because in my other drive the track is extracted and EAC don't even had to make error correction but as a said in other post the binaries aren't created in that computer so i only can check the crc that EAC reports.
I think i will extract the track with isobuster in the other drive and then combine with the bit that was dumped in the first drive to see if i can get a matching crc.

Anyway, thanks to all of you  Image
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