On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:53:57PM -0500, gabriel wrote: > > This makes them not a CD. I wouldn't hold up much hope on Linux to > > support these. Just about all Unixes use cdrecord as the underlying > > tool to read and write CDs, and I would surprised if the cdrecord author > > decided to process CDs that don't follow the published standards. > > what are you talking about? you don't need cdrecord to READ a cd. are you > saying that since these things aren't /real/ cds no one has written anything > to work around this problem?
You can try to use dd to read the contents of /dev/hd<whatever> and write that to a file, but if the "CD" is not in valid format and has intentional errors in a drive being able to read every track, you're screwed. > if this is the case, you have any idea where can i learn how to write my own? You'd have to write your own device driver to get around the errors in the drive media. You can learn about writing a device driver at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ Good luck, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
