Seth J. Morabito wrote: As long as there's only one track on the CD, dd on Linux will grab everything. On Solaris you might have to be careful to pick the right device node so you grab the whole thing. On MacOS X you definitely have to pick the right device node -- the one time I tried it, I picked wrong and only got one partition. Multi-partition discs usually have just one track containing all partitions. If you want to be sure you can "cdrecord -toc", if there's just one data track, you're good. Some discs actually do have more than one track. The SunCD demo disc is an example. It has a data track (probably with multiple partitions, I don't remember) and a few audio tracks. Some combination of dd (or readcd -- see below) and cdparanoia should be able to copy discs like this. 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. Another note, if you are reading CD-Rs which were written in TAO mode, you will get some empty sectors appended to the end, then an I/O error as your drive tries to read past the leadout. But you're not actually losing any data. -- Adam