[UCLA-LUG] copying "weird" cds

[Mark Fasheh]

hmm...  Are we copying playstation CD's perhaps?  ;)
    --Mark

tchow wrote:

> there was a thread a couple weeks ago about making isos
> from cds, but that didn't answer my questions
> completely.  i still don't know how to copy certain
> "weird" cds.
>
> dd, xcdroast, mkisofs all work well for data cds.  i
> can call those up and easily make an iso of a cd.
>
> audio cds also are easily copyable.
>
> but there are certain cds that i can't mount (the weird
> ones) that won't work with dd.
>
> erik hovland suggested these 2 links:
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/scgskeleton/scgskeleton-1.0.lsm
>
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.copy
>
> joerg schilling (the cdrecord guy and the guy who
> develops the above program) says that track at once cds
> can not be read traditionally, i.e. dd.  however he
> also suggested in the above link that if you feel like
> risking it you could make a cd directly from another
> cd, assuming you have a cd reader and a writer.  i
> tried this:
>
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,6,0 -isosize /dev/scd0
>
> but i get an error:
> Track 01:   0 of 608 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output
> error. read error on input file
>
> whatever program i use i can't read it but joerg says
> that sgcskeleton can read these.  unfortunately, i
> can't compile this and i can't find any documentation
> that helps me out.  could somebody try compiling this
> for me and tell me if it works and can image a cd? i
> dunno what else to do to copy these weird cds, i've
> looked everywhere...
>
> thanks
> tchow
>
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