Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > > I managed to recover the files on the CD! I used ddrescue which eventually > was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos > from the rescued image. > > ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my > laptop managed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > > This is an error at the layer above the audio sector. You may try to use: > > > > cdrecord -noerror -edc-corr > > I think you meant to say: > > readcd -noerror -edc-corr You are of course correct. > This is was I am getting. > > # readcd -noerror -edc-corr > No target specif

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-17 Thread Mick
I managed to recover the files on the CD! I used ddrescue which eventually was able to read the media and then ran photorec to retrieve the jpeg photos from the rescued image. ddrescue could not read the CD every time, but reinserting a few times on my laptop managed to start reading it. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Mar 2015 16:51:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mick wrote: > > scsibus2: > > 2,0,0 200) 'PIONEER ' 'BD-RW BDR-209D' '1.10' Removable CD-ROM > > 2,1,0 201) * > > 2,2,0 202) * > > 2,3,0 203) * > > 2,4,0 204) * > > 2,5,0 205) * > > 2,6,0 206) * > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > scsibus2: > 2,0,0 200) 'PIONEER ' 'BD-RW BDR-209D' '1.10' Removable CD-ROM > 2,1,0 201) * > 2,2,0 202) * > 2,3,0 203) * > 2,4,0 204) * > 2,5,0 205) * > 2,6,0 206) * > 2,7,0 207) * Pioneer is a good manufacturer...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Mar 2015 10:19:22 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Try to read the man page and use the direct access to the related > functions. > > From your printout, I cannot even tell whether the device argument was > correct. > > Start with readcd -scanbus Thank you Joerg, I had two CD drives in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > The resultant disk5.out is 0 bytes. Even when I try to start from sector 1 > or > 2, I end up with 0 byte output file. Any other settings I could try? did you try to read the man page? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net(home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. > > > > There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. > > Thank you all. dd and ddrescue don't work, becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Mar 2015 00:24:30 Mick wrote: > On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. > > > > There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. > > Thank you all. dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. > > There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. Thank you all. dd and ddrescue don't work, because the block device is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-03-13, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This > > is > > what dmesg reveals: > > Here's what I recommend. > > 1) Use ddrescue to read as many data blocks as you can off the CD. > > http://w

[gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-03-13, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This is > what dmesg reveals: Here's what I recommend. 1) Use ddrescue to read as many data blocks as you can off the CD. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ ddrescue wi