[geeks] Anyone know...

[Mike Hebel]

GL> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:57, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
>> ...how to make ISO images of CD-ROM's under Linux?

man mkisofs
man readcd
man cdrecord

GL> 'readcd' from the cdrecord package, or just use dd from /dev/scd0. 
GL> readcd is "better", but not perfect (I haven't made a working backup
GL> copy of my D2X CD yet).

That's because the "Disc Safe" protection crap puts a non-standard gap
onto the CD at some random location when they create the master.  What
you need to copy D2/D2X is a drive that reads subchannel data and can
do a perfect bitwise copy.  The only software I've found that will do
that 90% of the time, for _it's_ supported list of readers/burners, is
CloneCD which is a Winblow only app.  If anybody's got a better
solution I'd like to hear it though.

Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net