[Cialug] Where's the CD Device?

[David Champion]

Put in a CD and look at "dmesg" to see if you get a sr0 or other device
name there.

-dc


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Dave Weis
> <WeisD at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> That's what I thought, about the abstraction.  I would like for it to be
> possible to dd the image.  That's what I'm aiming for.  But I can't do that
> if I don't know where the device is.  dmesg makes it look like it's
> /dev/sr0, however:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/todd/output.iso
> dd: reading '/dev/sr0': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00738223 s, 0.0 kB/s
> $
>
> --
> Todd
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