Extending the Floppy Copy idea?

[Cyberclops]

Okay, so Floppy Copy is just that.
Put the first floppy in

>       cp /dev/fd0 ~/floppy.img

Take the first floppy out, put the second one in.
>       cp ~/floppy.img /dev/fd0

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >
> 
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