How to datadump?

Evohack · 08-07-2003, 07:21 PM

I'm looking to dump dvds to my hardrive, but do not know how? I asked a linux guru I know and he said to "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvdname.iso",
but when I do that I get this error:

dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
370576+0 records in
370576+0 records out

Is this because of the write protection on dvds or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your time in reading this.

arnold · 08-07-2003, 07:39 PM

370576 records appears to be dvd-sized. Did you check the iso file?

Evohack · 08-07-2003, 07:54 PM

yes but the file is not very big. how can i be sure its right? i gave me the error when i tried to dd it.

arnold · 08-07-2003, 08:22 PM

presuming you were able to mount the dvd, were you also able to mount the iso image?

Evohack · 08-07-2003, 08:31 PM

im not sure what mount is to be honest so I can't really answer that.