What device represent my audio CD? /dev/?

lawrence_lee_lee · 07-25-2008, 12:42 AM

I know that usually the device

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/dev/hdb

represents a CD. This is the case for data CD. However, when I insert an audio CD into a computer, I cannot find the appropriate device. For example, if I type,

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dd if=/dev/hdb of=audioCD.iso bs=2048

it gives me an error message instead of writing an image.

What should I do?

David the H. · 07-25-2008, 04:49 AM

Audio cds don't have filesystems as such; just a series of separate music data tracks, so the /dev block devices don't recognize them, and dd can't copy them. You might try using cdrdao; it has a 'copy' option that I believe can save to image file. k3b can also copy a cd to a disk image (using the clone copy option). Note that these aren't iso9660 images though, and it may be tricky to work with them in other programs.

resetreset · 07-26-2008, 06:55 AM

so how does the k3b copy the cd? what does it read from?