A read was only ever judged "good" by the drive's SCSI GOOD status — with no
integrity check on the bytes. On dirty/marginal media a drive can silently
return best-effort ECC data (occasionally mis-corrected) with GOOD status, so a
rip could "pass clean" yet decode with errors, pushing corruption downstream to
the mux instead of catching it at the read.
Enable recovered-error REPORTING at drive-prep: MODE SELECT the Read-Write
Error Recovery page with PER=1 (TB on / DTE off so the data still comes back),
preserving the drive's own retry count. Marginal reads now surface as
CHECK CONDITION / RECOVERED ERROR. Best-effort — a drive that doesn't honor it
keeps its defaults (no regression), and on a clean disc nothing changes.
A recovered error is distrusted: it marks just that ECC block NonTrimmed for a
Pass N re-read (a clean re-read wins; a persistent marginal becomes an honest
concealed gap), and is counted in the pass summary. Crucially it takes a
per-block SkipBlock, NOT the damage-jump path — a single marginal sector must
not trigger a 64 MB skip that would discard good data on a lightly-smudged disc.
Matthew Jackson
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