26 Oct
2006
26 Oct
'06
10:36 a.m.
Rumor has it that Adam Goldman may have mentioned these words:
...
I usually use dd, or even cat, on the first try reading a disc, just
out of laziness. But there's a program 'readcd' (part of the cdrtools
suite, IIRC) which is a little more sophisticated. In particular, if
a disc has a marginal sector or two, dd will give up, but readcd will
retry until it gets a good read.
dd will "give up on that sector but continue beyond error" if one uses:
dd conv=noerror ...
It can be handy if one needs to get data after a bad spot on the disk.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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