In article <bvhgsr$r7c$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

>>So basically, I assume this means the PMA says the CD is blank.
>>The CD burner's firmware reads the PMA and trusts it, so it
>>won't let me read the sectors, even though the sectors are there.
>>(Does that sound like the reasonable explanation?)
>
>If the medium is important, try to read it in a recent enough Plextor
>drive.
>
>Around 2002, I could convice Plextor to change the firmware of the
>drives to allow reading blocks past the official end, if the sectors
>look OK.
>
>Any drive => the 2x writer should do with a recent firmware.

^^^^
should of course be 12x

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