From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 20: 5:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DB8337B417 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58001 invoked by uid 100); 27 Dec 2001 04:05:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15402.40460.473447.960676@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:05:32 -0600 To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: robust copy program required In-Reply-To: <17237838@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 rene@xs4all.nl types: > Hi. I have several CDROMs with some scratches etc. Have you considered trying to polish the scratches out? I've rescued a few with toothpaste and elbow grease. > I'd like to get my hands on a copy tool that can log anything that is > un-copyable, but DOES copy the rest on the CDROM. > > is there such a thing for unix? i guess it may come as a script of some sort? dd will do the trick for reading the image in: dd if=/dev/cd0c of=cd-image bs=2048 conv=noerror,sync Adjust the device as appropriate for your system. If you are using audio CDs, you'll need to change the block size. See the archives for what it should be. You can then burn the image with burncd or cdrecord. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message