Extending the Floppy Copy idea?

[Warren Togami]

CD: No.  Perhaps you can *read* a CD in this fashion, but it does not take
into account any error situations, and on many machines the CD-ROM will go
to sleep before it is done, then you'll get an IDE or SCSI timeout.  Writing
to a CD in Linux takes a lot more than simply copying bits to a device
because the process is so timing error prone.

HD: *Sorta*.  This wont take into account partition table information and
stuff, so this will only work nicely if you have two identical hard
drives... but there are a whole bunch more problems in this.  Don't try it.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
MPLUG Support Forums
http://forum.mplug.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyberclops" <Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 8:42 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: Extending the Floppy Copy idea?


> Would it be possible to extend this idea and make a copy of a CD using a
> similar command if you have a CD burner?  What about copying an entire
> HD using a similar command?
>