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Re: floppy disk bad sectors

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From: Boba
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:51
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I am facing a 'similar' task but for CDs (compact disks get scratched)
and cds seem to be genetically different from floppies. I tried to
OpenFile and got no luck: all function calls return no errors but
the buffer doesn't get filled up with what i'd expect. How do i r/w a CD?
Thanx.                                                              Boba
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