On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:27, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:28, Marshal Newrock wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > How about just unmounting the disk and trying: > > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso > > > > perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk. > > > > > > Not a happy dd process... > > > > > > Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso > > > dd: reading `/dev/cdrom':Input/oupuut error > > > 3304+0 records in > > > 3304+0 records out > > > Gentoo2 root # > > > > That's correct. You get an I/O error when it hits the end of the disk. > > If you mount the .iso on loopback, you'll see it's complete. > > > > readcd (which I think comes with cdrtools) also does a similar thing. > > That's really interesting. Can you explain 'mounting on loopback'? What > is that? I only have one Linux book (Linux in a Nutshell) and it doesn't > have loopback in the index. > > Anyway, if there's a chance that will work I'll do it again and write > the CDR. > > Thanks! > > - Mark
Humm....On a CCR of Dynebolics that I wrote earlier this week I do not get the Input/Output error, and I get an iso file whose size makes sense. On this game CD the iso file size doesn't make sense... (to me anyway) bash-2.05b$ ls -al EX ls: EX: No such file or directory bash-2.05b$ ls -al EX* -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 1585152 Feb 3 18:30 EXILE_DISK_1.iso bash-2.05b$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1a.iso dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 3096+0 records in 3096+0 records out bash-2.05b$ ls -al EX* -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 1585152 Feb 3 18:30 EXILE_DISK_1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 1585152 Feb 3 18:31 EXILE_DISK_1a.iso bash-2.05b$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=DYNEBOLIC_DISK_1.iso 906848+0 records in 906848+0 records out bash-2.05b$ ls -al DYNEBOLIC_DISK_1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 mark mark 464306176 Feb 3 18:41 DYNEBOLIC_DISK_1.iso bash-2.05b$ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
