So, I did some other -noob- researching
First, I found
this. I think it would really deserve a look
Back to the topic what can I say? All I have are just empirical tests
First, I can successfully read raw cd both with HxD and with devdump (part of cdrtools suite)
If the latter is open, pcsx2 will refuse to load the drive though, claiming there are no available CDs. Windows still opens the drive pretty fine
Then, I noticed that for some weird reason.. in the correct reading (that on my sister's computer) you have Sector 16, then 18 and 22 and so on..
here (where it fails) 16, 48 then 32 and again 16
Last but not least, I logged pcsx2 with process monitor.. don't know if this could help
Hats off
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