On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 03:31 PM, Buchan Milne wrote:
>>> You might be slightly better off to have used hdc for the CD-RW so >>> that you could safely copy CDs. Both on the one IDE channel is >>> dubious with many chipsets. >> >> I don't copy CDs that way. If I want to copy a CD, I use dd and write >> an image to the hdd then burn it. Call me old fashioned, but I've not >> done a CD->CD copy (direct) in years. > > You might want to try cdrdao (if you are prepared to use ide-scsi on > your > reader). Once you set it up (by specifying all the options you want, > plus > -s), you can do things like: > > $ cdrdao copy > > So, you can have it default to writing a temporary file (defaults to > your > pwd), or do a direct copy. Interesting... I may have to look at that one of these days. =) > Hacing said that, direct copies aren't always that reliable, cause > invariably you will get CDs that will pick up a read error ... Which is pretty much why I don't do them... I've made a few coasters trying to make direct copies before. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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