copying a VCD with cdrdao

[Robert Storey]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:29:28 +0800
Robert Storey <y2kbug at ms25.hinet.net> wrote:

> I've spent much of today racking my brain trying to figure out how to
> copy a VCD. It seems that nice user-friendly k3b can't do it, and
> ditto for xcdroast. After much googling and experimentation, I hit
> upon the correct command-line syntax for using cdrdao. It's actually
> very simple, but took a long time to figure out, so I decided to post
> my short little script to save others the trauma of trying to figure
> it out.
> 
> The following assumes that you have two CD drives. You need to make
> sure that you have two symbolic links, /dev/cdrom for the CD reader
> and/dev/cdrom1 for the burner:
> 
> bob at sonic:~> ls -l /dev/cdrom*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Feb 14  2005 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Feb 14  2005 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdd
> 
> All you've got to do is create a script (which I call "vcdcopy") with
> the following content:
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/cdrom toctoc
> cdrdao write --device /dev/cdrom1 toctoc
> rm toctoc
> eject dev/cdrom
> eject /dev/cdrom1
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> And that's all there is to it.
> 
> Now why can't k3b do that???
> 
> cheers,
> Robert

Whoops! I was missing a "/" in front of dev/cdrom. Should be:

#!/bin/bash
 
cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/cdrom toctoc
cdrdao write --device /dev/cdrom1 toctoc
rm toctoc
eject /dev/cdrom
eject /dev/cdrom1