dd an audio cd on 5.x ?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu2 at xnet.ro> writes:

> I need to make an image (I do need a copy so saving and writting 
> individual tracks is of no use) of an audio CD, but when I try:
> # dd if=/dev/acd0c of=bizprez.iso bs=2048

That command will copy a data disk, but you have separate
tracks on this thing.

>  I get :
> dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
> because devfs is nicely making the acd0t0nn files in /dev and no acd0c.

Which is appropriate, because there isn't *any* filesystem
on your disk.

> How can this be overcome ?

The closest I think you can get is the suggestion in the
cdrecord manual, which uses cdda2wav and cdrecord to get as
much of the lead-in, lead-out, and CD-text information
correct as possible.