[Cialug] Where's the CD Device?

[Dave Weis]

There's no part of the file system that contains cdda files, it's an abstraction the desktop creates for you. It's possible to dd the image and make an on disk copy of the CD. That image can then be burned back to a CD.



-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:27 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Where's the CD Device?

I'm running Mint Xfce for the first time.  I want to rip a CD image.  So I put the CD into the CD drive, and it shows up in the file manager in the Devices grouping.  If I click on it it shows track wav files, and Banshee popped up offering to play the CD or import it for me.

However, neither of those is really what I want.  I want to straight rip a copy of the image to an iso file.  dd seems like a sensible option for this, but I don't know where the CD device is.  When I click on it in the file manager the location bar says cdda://sr0/, which is not very helpful.
There's nothing under /media or /mnt.  I can't 'find' anywhere on teh filesystem that has "cdda" in it.  There's a /dev/sr0 and a /dev/cdrom, but neither can be read from.

Help?  What is this "cdda://" business?  And where do I find the cdrom device?

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Todd
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