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debugmo.de is a personal blog at debugmo.de about hardware and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-08
- Fjita: A half-working FPGA controlled low level DVD burner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-02
What Hacker News says?
After having watched "Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music" by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJqlD9RxD4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olNiMCz9to I went on a CDROM research binge. Found this on my way https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/ Its about DVDs (has data dump plus code), but you can use same mechanism to easily modify CDROM drive usi…
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on “DVD Laser Scanner Microscope”Submitted Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007) as a story · 50 points
HN discussionAfter having watched "Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music" by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJqlD9RxD4 I went on a CDROM research binge. Found this on my way https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/ Its about DVDs (has data dump plus code), but you can use same mechanism to easily modify CDROM drive using $4 piece of hardware (ebay "EZ-USB fx2lp cy7c…
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on “Compact Disc Structure”Submitted Almost Secure (2011) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionIt’s a slightly more involved project, but tmbinc managed to write arbitrary pictures to a DVD surface: https://debugmo.de/2022/05/fjita-the-project-that-wasnt-mean...
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on “A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)”Submitted Fjita: A half-working FPGA controlled low level DVD burner as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLaserDisc preservation by capturing raw rf signal might be closest to what you want https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=978 There was someone doing custom interface to read very old HDD (mfm old), dont remember the exact website. Here is this DVD hack https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olNiMCz9to showed how easy it is to do it for CDs. There are also CD emulators…
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on “FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller”Submitted Autoliv NV2 Night Vision Automotive Camera Teardown (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm ignorant on the topic, but will observe that ultimately a block is a hardware construct for precisely such reasons as error correction. The way you've formed the question, it sounds like the answer will be no. But maybe there's another way of looking at it? This writeup discusses some features of DVD "raw" access (a figure of speech) and an approach to accessing data at lowest level possible with drive logic. ht…
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on “Show HN: Ddrescue-helper.sh – A bash script for GNU ddrescue”
