On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:

> > How about just unmounting the disk and trying:
> >     dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso
> > perhaps? That'll give you an exact (and burnable) copy of the disk.
>
> Not a happy dd process...
>
> Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso
> dd: reading `/dev/cdrom':Input/oupuut error
> 3304+0 records in
> 3304+0 records out
> Gentoo2 root #

That's correct.  You get an I/O error when it hits the end of the disk.
If you mount the .iso on loopback, you'll see it's complete.

readcd (which I think comes with cdrtools) also does a similar thing.

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