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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:39:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Sean Hamilton <sh@bel.bc.ca>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: burncd raw mode
Message-ID:  <200212170839.gBH8d600075537@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <001701c2a57c$4587a340$9b18e8d8@slugabed.org>

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It seems Sean Hamilton wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a 2352-byte block mode1 CD image, and wish to burn this with burncd.
> I know I can use bin2iso or bchunk to decode it, but I'd rather keep the
> block metadata intact from the file itself instead of having the
> burner/driver(?) reconstruct it.
> 
> I assembled a small stack of coasters by trying a few combinations of -d,
> 'raw', etc, to no avail. The best I got was from raw, a track which needed
> to be read with 2352 byte blocks, so it wasn't being interpreted as
> metadata. I presume if I were to dd this entire disc into a file, I would
> have a verbatim copy of my original, albeit less fault tolerant.
> 
> Can this be done with burncd?

Not as is, but it could be done, however there is absolutly no point
in doing it, *unless* its to make an exact copy of a CD that is
copyprotected in one of the usual ways.

So, assuming you have a legit image, you simply rip out the 2048 bytes
of real data from each 2352 byte block in that file, and burn it as
a normal data CD, bingo..

> How does the drive/driver know to interpret the remaining 304 bytes as
> metadata?

Thats a long explanation, its checksumming etc etc.

> Is it possible to extract the full 2352 byte blocks from a track which is
> advertised as only 2048, ie a typical data track? There are a few Windows
> apps for doing exactly this.

Sure it is, but why would you need to ?

-Søren

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