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Richard wrote:
 
> You need a CD-R drive that supports 512 byte blocks.  Without that,
> you won't be able to see anything of the structure inside the disc,
> even if it's a linux box.

I still have the original CD-rom drive that was connected to the system
at the time.

It used a tray or cartrige that you put the CD in and then inserted the
cartrige into the drive.

Oh yea - it was a scsi CD-rom drive...