clone cd disk to cd disk

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun May 15 07:21:51 PDT 2005


"fbsd_user" <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fabian
> Keil
> > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:22 PM
> > To: fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD. ORG
> > Subject: Re: clone cd disk to cd disk
> >
> > Its my understanding both of your suggestions only read the
> contents
> > of the source cd as files thus no MBR or any of those imbedded
> > hidden hardware security measures would get cloned.  Which is the
> > purpose of asking for a cdrom sector cloning program or utility.
> 
> 1. Neither dd nor readcd does "file reading".
> 2. You don't need to clone sectors to copy a bootable cd.
> 3. readcd has a clone switch.
> 4. If your "hidden hardware security measures" read the ATIP,
>    you are lost anyway.
> 
> Fabian
> --
> ********************************************************************
> **
> 
> Fabian,  thanks for the insight.
> 
> I am running 4.10 generic kernel with 2 ata cd drives.
> Master is read only and slave is rd/rw.
> 
> How would I code the burncd command to read all the music files from
> cd0 and write to cd1 without work file in between?
> 
> How would I code the burncd command to clone a bootable cd without
> work file in between?

I never used burncd. man burncd seems to be a good starting point.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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