[CLUE-Tech] mounting an audio CD

[Matt Gushee]

jason at matchingmoms.com writes:

 > My goal is to be able to copy an audio CD onto a blank CD-R.  I have a
 > CD-ROM and a CD-RW.  Preferably, I'd like to go straight from CD to CD, and
 > not CD to disk to CD.

Seems like there's some CD copying utility around ... and since the CD
burning process normally deals with raw devices rather than file
systems, so I would think that if it exists it wouldn't require you to
mount the source CD. If you can't find that you could do something
like:

    mkfifo /tmp/mynamedpipe
    dd -if /dev/hdc -of /tmp/mynamedpipe
    cdrecord dev=whatever /tmp/mynamedpipe

Note that this is just off the top of my head, and ... just in case
you're not the sensible person you seem to be, let me deliver the
customary warning that dd is a very risky command (I'd put it up there
with rm -rf and fdisk). Please thoroughly research the potential
consequences before trying this.

Happy copying!

Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA