From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262174AbTKYJkO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:40:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262181AbTKYJkO (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:40:14 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:25730 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262174AbTKYJkL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:40:11 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:40:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5F0021EEA434D511BE7300D0B7B6AB530CA67677@mail2.ggn.hcltech.com> <20031125.182844.46174767.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7MsjtgpwGpXxf8oMdSlMQ+sqN3c= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / .$B5HF#1QL@.(B writes: > Basically, it depends on what kind of equipment you and the enemy > have. If you have special equipment and technique to write a > floppy, you can make a floppy which is not copiable by normal PCs. > But, if the enemy has similar equipment, he can do it. > > About 15 years ago, there were many gaming softwares which were procected, > for example, by checking "gap" between sectors. Can't that be done with a regular floppy drive and some special software? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se