[LUNI] help with copying CDs that have errors

[Seva Epsteyn]

I think you can just use dd, as insomething like

 dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=412 conv=noerror

-Seva

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:

> A backup CD could have a lot of information on it, and be going bad over time,
> so one would want to make a fresh copy of as much as possible.
> 
> as far as I can find, gnomebaker (kubuntu) and the equivalent in ubuntu will
> abort a copy at the first read failure.  Is there a way to force them or
> anything equivalent to do the best it can?  I realize if the failure is in a
> directory block, it may not be so useful, but most of the time it may just be
> one file that is lost.
> 
> If not in any of the gui packages, is there a tutorial somewhere using line
> mode commands to do this?
> 
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