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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:30:13 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1013610613.d9d9e5@mired.org>
To:        swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, drew@mykitchentable.net
Subject:   Re: How To Create A RAW ISO With An IDE CD-R Drive?
Message-ID:  <15459.57589.610526.122106@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <6774149@toto.iv>

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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> types:
> "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes:
> > I'm kind of in a time pinch here and haven't had quick success with
> > Google.  Can some one please tell me how I can create a ISO file of a
> > CD?  I want to make an exact duplicate (errors, and all) so I need to
> > make a RAW image.  Is this possible?  What would the command be?
> Something like
> 
>     dd if=/dev/acd0c of=ISO bs=2k

That will stop on errors. You can't copy them - at least, not with any
tool I know of that works on IDE drives. What you can do is have dd
fill in the error blocks with zeros, which may do the trick for you:

	dd if=/dev/acd0c of=ISO bs=2k conf=noerror,sync

	<mike

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