Copy a CD with cdrecord and a single burner

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 00:30:55 UTC 2006


On 8/26/06, David Fletcher <fc at fletchersweb.net> wrote:
> > Thanks, David and Chris, but
> >
> > $ dd if=/dev/hdf of=iso1.iso
> > dd: reading `/dev/hdf': Input/output error
> > 0+0 records in
> > 0+0 records out
> > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.009431 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
> > $
>
> OK Paul, what I just tried is, using FC5 with KDE,
>
> 1) Put a data CD in the drive.
> 2) When Fedora asks what to do, just click OK to let it mount the CD and open
> it in a window.
> 3) Look to see what it mounts it as. Mine said media:/hda (because my hard
> drive is SATA the CD gets hda)
> 4) Close the window and right-click Unmount on the icon
> 5) dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/to/my/file.iso replacing hda with whatever yours
> mounted as.
> 6) I've got a 627MB file on my hard drive.
> 7) Hope that helps.
> 8) Time for bed!

Thanks again, Dave. Your method does not work here (FC5 and KDE too).
In truth, audio CDs do not correspond to a filesystem. Meanwhile, I
found the following solution:

cdrdao copy --device /dev/dvd

which works fine with audio or data CDs.

Paul




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