RE: Copying CDs

["Jon Burchmore" <burch@offline.org>]

> Sorry, this won't work. You need a special tool to write to cd's. To copy
> the source cd you can either use cdda2wav or paranoia if it's a music cd
> (aka 'red book'), mount mkisofs (do a man on this program for more info),
> or use sdd (scsi dd) to do a bit-for-bit copy of the source. Note though,
> that the last option does actually do a bit for bit copy, meaning even
> things such as scratches will show up on the copy (the other tools would
> normally fix these problems). Once you have an image of the disc you'd
> like to copy, use cdrecord to burn the cd; the syntax wil be something
> like "cdrecord -v dev=0,2,0 -eject speed=4 -audio *wav", just do a man on
> cdrecord.

I have to disagree with part of what was said above.  I use plain old dd to grab 
images off (data) CD-ROMs all the time.  A simple dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=8192000
works for me.  Of course, this doesn't work with audio CDs (I use cdparanoia for
them).

-Jon Burchmore