[TUHS] Panic! - Unix System Crash Dump Analysis companion CD-ROM

[Adam Thornton via TUHS]

cdparanoia, last time I used it, was pretty good at recovering data from
busted CDs.  I suspect that doing that across multiple copies might indeed
get you, in aggregate, a good image.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:20 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

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> I guess the question then becomes whether the multiple bad dumps have
> the proper complement of good blocks between them to assemble a proper
> image.  This may also suggest performing something like a bin/cue backup
> that captures more sector information, that way you can also use that
> metadata to better reconstruct a complete image.  This has been done for
> a few video games where just enough good blocks could be pulled from
> known-but-decayed specimens that the correct image could ultimately be
> produced.
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