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Looking for plugin - read bad media

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I wonder - does anyone know of a plugin which would be able to perform "quick and dirty" reading of damaged media? E.g. I have a scratched CD; I would like to read as much data from it as possible, but don't care too much about accuracy (that is handled through other means) - the expected behavior would be "try to read a bad sector for a limited time, but if it does not succeed, stop trying and try 10 [or 100] sectors later).
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Re: Looking for plugin - read bad media

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Why do you think it should be a FAR Manager plugin?
A tool to read a damaged media would need to work with the physical structure, not with the file system, so it would hardly fit into the file manager concept.
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Re: Looking for plugin - read bad media

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HaRT wrote:Why do you think it should be a FAR Manager plugin?
I am asking if there is such a plugin. I am not asking anyone to sit down and write it.
A tool to read a damaged media would need to work with the physical structure, not with the file system, so it would hardly fit into the file manager concept.
Not really. For my needs, it would be sufficient if:

1) the reading was done asynchronously, so that the user could press ESC and have it registered by FAR in a timely fashion. Reason: When reading a damaged CD, it can take Windows several minutes to give up on the sector and report error, and while Windows are still trying, FAR fails to respond to user input.

2) the abort dialogue had an extra option of "Skip the next ... bytes and continue".

But that is just an academical argument to your contention that this does not fit the file manager concept. As I said, I am not asking anyone to actually implement this functionality - I just wanted to know if anyone has already done it.

(Although, the timely reaction to user input would certainly be a nice feature to have in FAR Manager, even if "reading bad media" really was outside of its scope...)
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Re: Looking for plugin - read bad media

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Not plugin but small gui utility: _http://dmitrys.nm.ru/download/nscopy104.zip.
You can launch it with parameters from UserMenu.
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John Doe wrote:Not plugin but small gui utility: http://dmitrys.nm.ru/download/nscopy104.zip.
You can launch it from UserMenu.
Error 404. Document not found. ?
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Just paste link into browser's address line.
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Re: Looking for plugin - read bad media

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Thanks, I will try it. Hopefully it will perform better than e.g. Unstoppable Copier.
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Re: Looking for plugin - read bad media

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I just wanted to let you know that NSCopy works exactly as I needed.
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