[paranoia] poor quality & glitches

[Adam Hardy]

On 10/30/2003 12:01 PM Mikko Nummelin wrote:
> The best way to see where the '-P' switch takes effect is to examine the
> patch itself. It clearly shows:
> 
> + if (protected)
> + d->read_audio = scsi_read_D8;
> 
> for scsi_interface.c (try to find that exact row from patched version).
> d->read_audio is a function pointer which can be assigned to any of those
> read commands. The '-P' switch forces it to be scsi_read_D8, but you may
> alter it to some other read command.
> 
> Remember (a) that the patch is not written by me but instead a clever
> Finnish hacker who sent the patch to me, (b) that following my suggestion
> about various read commands might be DANGEROUS and I give ABSOLUTELY NO
> WARRANTY of what happens. It is known that some CD-RW drives MIGHT BE
> DAMAGED BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION OF FIRMWARE with some random commands.

Mikko,
are you basically saying that this Cactus Data Shield really works?

I haven't seen the songs on this CD up on gnutella, which I just 
checked, so perhaps this is the case.

Thanks for the warnings. The CD drive is old and slow, but I still don't 
want to burn out its circuits :O

<p>Adam

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