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to: BRIAN ROCHE
from: BRIAN MCCLOUD
date: 1997-06-30 16:35:00
subject: Re: Copy Protect

BR> BM> The first one wouldn't, since diskcopy copies ALL sectors of the
BR> BM> source disk regardless of whether or not they're marked as used.
BR> Last time I tried using DiskCopy on a copy-protected diskette (oh,  back
BR> around  Dos  3.1  or  so)  it  choked  faster  than a bimbo at a leper's
BR> convention.
BR> As long as software is using  Dos/Int  21h  routines,  it  won't  handle
BR> renumbered  or  crazy  sector numbers put in with Bios/Int 13h routines,
BR> which was what the majority of Copy-protection schemes used.
I don't think my DiskCopy is using int 21h calls... I thinks it's using the
int 13h calls... from the diskette with bad sectors I tried to copy, it tried
but failed to read many of the sectors which had been marked as bad.
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