27 Aug
2014
27 Aug
'14
9:03 a.m.
Has anyone successfully duplicated or archived the Sun 4.1 era Sunos CDs?
That is my benchmark of a real archive tool.
If you ever had one of those with an SS1, SS5 and an IPX and IPC all
running, when you booted the CD or inserted it after install and browsed
it between the boot code and drivers, each system would see different
executables and data for all the CD partitions. Each sun system had s
different architecture, and this CD would present a different set of
data to each system.
Duplicating that (and explaining it better than I have here) is what I'd
love to see in a CD tool.
JIm
On 8/26/2014 2:50 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
Hi,
The recent thread on AB20 reminded me I have a large pile of CDs from the 1990s
that could do with being imaged and uploaded to archive.org.
What's the best free Unix tool[0] for doing this? Sure, I know about dd and
cdparanoia, but those only extract data and CDDA respectively, and I'd prefer
produce an actual image complete with TOC, subchannels, etc. To *use* the data,
I can always transcode from that into something lossier such as FLAC :) but the
reverse transformation is not possible.
Failing that, I can go off and *write* one, but I'd rather not spend the effort
if something suitable already exists and has already been well-tested and
confirmed to not make subtle errors in rips.
(Bonus points for tips on how to do the same with Blu-Ray discs, since I may as
well archive them now rather than leave it until the 2030s.)
[0] I say this otherwise some berk will pipe up with "you can do that with
SuperMegaRipper Pro from Malware Inc. for Windows 9, and it costs just $299
for a 60 day licence". I'd rather toss the discs in the bin.