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Hi there matey.
Interesting mail.
My nature, as you put it, is to try and present the facts and not uneducated conjecture. You will also see that I'm very active in helping peeps on that forum in every way. Not the argumentative person you presume I am.
Your nature on the other hand is one of confrontation by abusive language. Your original post (which you deleted once you'd calmed down) is proof of that sadly.
I'm happy with my mature attitude to what is somewhat unimportant debate. Obviously, you need to take criticism a little less to heart and stop resonding with your adolescent hormones.
Now, to respond to your points...
1.>??tg: i have heard this from alot of plextor owners although it doesnt make any sense that this would be the case....
Why should it make sense to you? We don't fully understand sd2 and just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't deny the fact that it happens. I've made many copies with my two plex drives which only work in my drive. No others. And I'm not alone in this. The weak sectors are quirky by nature and thus don't always follow "sense"
2.>??tg: the box that says "Please insert correct cd" + a windows interal error can be expressed though an invalid page fault
read the code within the loaders. This isn't an internal windows error, but a specific call from within the program code to a windows api. If you don't believe me then put your loader into Win32Dasm or similar and check the imported functions list. Or even better, set SoftICE to breakpoint a one of those api calls and you'll break just before it.
It has nothing to do with a windows internal error otherwise the loader would stop responding. And as for your comment about invalid page faults.......dear oh dear. I haven't the time or inclination to discuss at length basic programming with you as it seems you are unfamiliar with it.
3.Take Deus Ex for instance. No cd in the drive generates a error message box.
>??tg: (which is rarely used elsewhere)
Again, there are plenty of titles out there which use exactly this kind of lame mechanism. Granted it is getting less and less as companies are duped into thinking that sd2 is worth the money.
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