you probably are grabbing data from the correct pin. [tmbinc] even put together a software tool to process the resulting raw DVD data.

Get data recovery for CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray disks. Create replicas of a hard drive on a different drive to recover ...

The original DVD drive (1x) transferred data at 1.39MB per second, sufficient for movies. By doubling the spindle RPMs, the data transfer rate increased to 2.77MB/sec (2x) and so on. Each DVD X is ...