[wplug] question regarding cd writingB

[Brian S. Woolstrum]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 @ 9:07pm (-0400), Brian S. Woolstrum wrote:
>
> BSW> > the burner user scsi emulation.  Now when I run xcdroast, I can see the
> BSW> > cdrw drive but I cant see my regular cd drive.  My assumption is in
> BSW> > order to burn from the cd to the cdrw, I'll have to setup the cd player
>
>
> don't lie to yourself >:} for duping you're better off using mkisofs and
> cdrecord.
>
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
>
> -lava
>

Hmmmm, I think you've attributed the quotes a little off.  Those 3 lines
were from the original message from Bill.  I half agree with you on the
duping, cdrecord is a great way to go.  But, mkisofs is just extra, needless
processing when duping from a cd that is already in iso9660.  Just use dd.