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.
Problems dumping one audio track
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Problems dumping one audio track
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
try to speed down the drive (nero drivespeed or ddump method)
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
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...
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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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
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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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
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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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
Have you tried seeing if maybe there is a firmware update that might fix that issue for that drive?
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
I flashed the drive to the latest firmware (1.10) long time ago.
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
sometimes IsoBuster might work better
but you'd have to extract data on multiple drives to be sure
and align it manually
but you'd have to extract data on multiple drives to be sure
and align it manually
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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
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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Re: Problems dumping one audio track
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
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

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