>From: Joachim Backes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>i have some issues and proposals for the readcd command:
>1a.Would it be possible to synchronize the man page of readcd
> with the -help options? In the man page, not all readcd
> options are described (no -help, nor f=, for example).
This is mostly a matter of time....
>1b.What is the starting sector number? 0 or 1?
The SCSI standard tells you what sector numbers should point to.
>2. I use readcd for copying self burned cd's where the problem
> of the last 2 (or more) sectors arizes.
> Some new options introduced into readcd would be be helpful:
> a) A new option which says: stop reading if the last 2 sectors
> (or more) cannot be read, but exit normally without error msg,
>
> or
> b) A new option to readcd which only outputs the sector
> number of the cd, so that the usage of readcd within
> shell or PERL scripts could be simplified!
> For the moment, for getting the sector number of a cd,
> I call in Perl:
> my $sectors = (split / +/,`readcd dev=... f=/dev/null sectors=0-0
>2>/dev/null`)[1];
> And a shell script will be more complicated to get the appropriate info.
> or
> c) An option (-sb) for example which tells readcd that the source
> is a burned cd.
not (easyly) possible in general: Old Yamaha drives did add an unknown and higher
number of run-out sectors.
J�rg
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