looking for a fast way to dump a dvd to a file on my hdd

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:02:11 +0100
Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at spoerlein.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 02.02.2011 at 12:04:58 -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > On 02/02/11 11:54, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > so far dd(1) with a bs=2048 finished after:
> > > 
> > > 4676648960 bytes transferred in 1639.108763 secs (2853166 bytes/sec)
> > 
> > Just curious - how will recoverdisk(1) perform?  I haven't tried it
> > myself but it uses much larger window which could be faster.
> 
> +1 for recoverdisk. I hacked it so that it will also cope with media
> that has weird sectorsizes like 2352 bytes. It is awesome for reading
> optical media now, thanks to retries, large read requests and the
> ability to save progress (so you can try the failing sectors in another
> drive).
> 

And are these hacks available to the general public somewhere?

-- 
Gary Jennejohn (gj@)