Re: IDE CDROM and dd...

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 08:07:39 EST


On Thu, Jun 08 2000, Jim Nance wrote:
> I am having similar problems trying to dd a music CD. Is this supposed to
> work, or does the driver "know" something about what the data on the CD is
> supposed to look like? I see from your other posts that you did manage to
> get some data off the disc. It fails for me at the beginning and I do not
> get anything.

You can't dd a music CD, use a ripper program such as cdparanoia to
rip cdda sectors from a disc.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs

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