Need disc mounting software for Linux

EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
edited April 2006 in Science & Tech
I've been looking for something like this for a while and can't find anything. I need a program that will let me mount disc images (img, mdf, etc) but I'm damned if I can find anything. I know I can mount iso images via -o loop but I need to mount these other types too. I've recently been archiving some of my older or more damaged CDs on my machine. The best method I can find (short of using Windows and Alcohol 120% to make MDF files) is to use readcd's -clone mode which seems to work well and copies subchannel data and the toc as well as the disc image, but still, that doesn't work with copy protections that use errors as the protection (D2:LOD, SWAT3 that I've found so far).

So the question is twofold really, is there any way of making perfect copies of my discs on Linux (why oh why isn't the ISO standard more capable) and is there any way of mounting other types of images in Linux?

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    Tried using dd to make the backup?

    EDIT: Nvm, dd doesn't appear to be able to get subchannels. Try using cdrdao for both raw read and writing. There's some decent guides out there.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    DD doesn't copy errors, it doesn't get subchannel, etc etc. I tried that originally. I'll look at cdrdao though, thanks.
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