CD problems

[Alexander Apprich]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> A friend of mine made a mistake creating two CDs and asked if I can 
> help.  Maybe someone on this list has some ideas.
> 
> He made 2 CDs but somehow did not close out the session when he 
> completed.  Now he cannot access the data on the disk. Yes, I can see 
> that the disk was written, and that the closing tracks were not written.
> 
> When I insert the CD in my burner it tells me the disk is empty.
> I can use either xcdroast or k3b but neither is able to see the 
> contents.  AFAICT the disk was not written as a multi-session, but I am 
> not sure of that.
> 
> What I want to do is be able to close out the session and hopefully 
> access the data which is very important. (tax records, etc)
> 
> Trying to use dd to get the data from the cd does not work.  It creates 
> an empty file.
> 
> Any useful ideas????

cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -fix

Don't know if that fixes your problem, it helped me awhile ago having
the same problem. Replace dev=0,0,0 if needed (cdrecord -scanbus)

> 
> Jeff
> 
> 

Alex