From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 11:56:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56A337B404 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:56:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from english-breakfast.cloud9.net (english-breakfast.cloud9.net [168.100.1.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121C043E42 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by english-breakfast.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8145226F2E; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:56:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from english-breakfast.cloud9.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.7) id 40588-02A2511D; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:56:15 -0500 Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by english-breakfast.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB5B26F21; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:56:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:56:15 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: pete@earl-grey.cloud9.net To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Seeking command similar to dd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021117143949.A80685-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.7; VAE: 6.16.0.0; VDF: 6.16.0.17; host: english-breakfast.cloud9.net) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Nov 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Peter Leftwich writes: > > Is there a command similar to "dd" to analyze a CD that is in the drive? > I use the "dd bs=2k" command on ISO 9660 CDs. Is there more to that command line? Or does it let you browse RAW data? > > I used mkisofs the other day, then burncd (forgot to say "fixate" on the > > end of the command line though), and now I cannot mount this CD. Ideas? > I'm fairly sure that you can successfully run "burncd fixate" just after > running "burncd data ...", but I don't know what can be done in between The weird thing is that right after the burncd session finished, I was able to "ls -al" the cd (can't remember if it was mountable or not...) > without messing things up. I don't know if the drive has "memory" which > gets used in the fixate process or if it's something that can be done > from scratch at any time after burning the data. (I've even had > occasional success restarting a burn that bailed out mid-CD. Sadly, > I can't get my burner to burn or even mount CDs reliably lately. New > kernel didn't help. Guess I'll have to install Linux and see if it can > drive the thing any better.) Does it sound like not having put "fixate" on the end has made this CD never again readable? It's ok because I archived the data anyways. But please comment. > When "analyzing" CDs, know that "burncd" usually puts an extra 2k block > on the CD, so that a raw "diff" won't work. I think I've posted my > CD-diffing script here already; ask me if you'd like it. Thanks for the tip. Is there a command line that makes the CD bootable in any drive? For example, I've read the manpage and it looks as though you can add -h for Macs and HFS, and -r for RockRidge extensions which get around 8.3 format and... a couple other filename affecting flags...? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message