How to rip DATA cd-roms?

[MBMarduk]

I dunno.
I've ripped data before like this:

dd if=/dev/scd0 of=somefile

It's worked fine. Ripping, burning, reading, everything.
I USED to be able to do this fine in the 2.4.5 kernel days. (It's been a while since I last did this.)
But it seems as of lately it just dies after a while saying something like "/dev/scd0: input/output error".

There's gotta be another way besides using 'dd' right?
So what else can I use?
The purpose is ofcourse to rip the CD-ROM to burn a copy.
TIA!

[scanez]

Hmmm, that's weird, that's how I always do it (using kernel 2.4.6). I guess you could always do it with mkisofs. Mount the cdrom say in the /mnt/cdrom directory and then

mkisofs -r -o output_name /mnt/cdrom

SC

[7]

dd works okay for me and i'm on kernel 2.4.10.

I got I/O errors when my old cdr broke :(

[Harry]

Are you sure there isn't any audio on the cd? When backing up Playstation games, dd will not work because they are mixed-mode cds. Cdrdao will make perfect bit for bit copies of any cd. It already comes with most distros.

[MBMarduk]

Originally posted by Harry:
<STRONG>Are you sure there isn't any audio on the cd? When backing up Playstation games, dd will not work because they are mixed-mode cds. Cdrdao will make perfect bit for bit copies of any cd. It already comes with most distros.</STRONG>

Darn. Music on the CD! I didn't think about that! I
Are you sure CdrDAO can handle mixed CDs?

The CD in question shows only 1 track in my normal audio CD player; aren't *2* tracks a dead giveaway for mixed mode?
Besides: another particularly difficult CD-ROM locks my machine HARD with 'dd' after the first 1.6MB. Any thoughts why?
TIA.