I would like to copy my dvd's and cd's to the harddrive as iso images.

This works sometimes but there must be a better way:
cat < /dev/dvd > /path/dvd.iso

But sometimes I get this error: "cat: -: Input/output error"
I think it might be due to encrypted dvd's.

When it works, then I mount the file like this:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>

it works, but like I said sometimes :)

Can anyone help me with a better solution?
If possible I would also like to be able to name the isofile with the
name of the dvd label.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Kevin
mojo7777 at gmail.com

On 2008-01-28, NightHawk <mojo7777 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to copy my dvd's and cd's to the harddrive as iso images.
>
> This works sometimes but there must be a better way:
> cat < /dev/dvd > /path/dvd.iso
This works??? Weird...!

I normally use:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=path.dvd.iso

If you have a DVD that has errors, there's an option 'noerror' in dd to
ignore those.



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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:01:27 +0100, Rikishi 42 wrote:
>
> I normally use:
> dd if=/dev/dvd of=path.dvd.iso
>

This works on the DVD's that I couldn't copy before, but it changes the
file names from Uppercase to Lowercase, my old method would do that too
though, I wonder why? Any other ideas?

On 2008-01-28, NightHawk <mojo7777 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>> I normally use:
>> dd if=/dev/dvd of=path.dvd.iso

> This works on the DVD's that I couldn't copy before, but it changes the
> file names from Uppercase to Lowercase, my old method would do that too
> though, I wonder why? Any other ideas?

You must be kidding me...
Changing of file name case ???? I never even *heard* about such a thing with
dd. I'd assumed it to be impossible, but for what you just told me.

Are you sure ?


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In article <sp6275-tu2.ln1 [at] whisper.very.softly>,
Rikishi 42 <skunkworks [at] rikishi42.net> wrote:
>On 2008-01-28, NightHawk <mojo7777 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I normally use:
>>> dd if=/dev/dvd of=path.dvd.iso
>
>> This works on the DVD's that I couldn't copy before, but it changes the
>> file names from Uppercase to Lowercase, my old method would do that too
>> though, I wonder why? Any other ideas?
>
>You must be kidding me...
>Changing of file name case ???? I never even *heard* about such a thing with
>dd. I'd assumed it to be impossible, but for what you just told me.
>
>Are you sure ?

Presumably this is a matter of default mount options that are being picked up,
and varying depending on the device/file being mounted.

John
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>>> This works on the DVD's that I couldn't copy before, but it changes
>>> the file names from Uppercase to Lowercase, my old method would do
>>> that too though, I wonder why? Any other ideas?
>>
>>You must be kidding me...
>>Changing of file name case ???? I never even *heard* about such a thing
>>with dd. I'd assumed it to be impossible, but for what you just told me.
>>
>>Are you sure ?
>
> Presumably this is a matter of default mount options that are being
> picked up, and varying depending on the device/file being mounted.
>
> John

After a bit of playing around John is right. I was mounting it wrong.
Rikishi was right too, it don't change the case.
I was using this command to mount:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofilename mountpoint

and I should have been just doing this:
mount -o loop isofilename mountpoint

So it appeared that the filenames case was changed.
I don't know why it changes the case and I
thought I needed the "-t iso9660" option.

I'm almost done with my dvd problem, now if I could figure out
how to read the dvd label, I think i could write the script :(

Thank you to all for the help to get me this far :)

--kevin