<quote who="Terry Collins">
> Looking for a heads up on how to copy a CD under Linux?
>
> I thought the procedure was to dd if=device of=some.iso, then cdrecord it.
> I'm having trouble with dd in that it has taken over 60 minutes to copy
> 200Mb, so I don't hink I'm correct in my assumption.
>
> So how do I copy off the cd iso?
This is right, but you're best off using a big block size, so:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=pants.iso bs=8M
That will speed it up. You should also enable DMA on your drive if it can
handle it (via hdparm).
- Jeff
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