Copying CDs with graveman

[Sam Tygier]

i think it will only work for data cds. also the data cd may have to be unmounted first (which i dont think can be easily done with the gui) "umount /dev/hda" (thats umount not unmount).

maybe xcdroast can do this?

sam

Tony Arnold wrote:
> I've been playing around with graveman on my Hoary system. I started off
> with only a single CD-ROM drive and decided to add a second drive so
> that I could easily copy CDs. I especially want to copy audio CDs.
> 
> The second drive is /dev/hdb and is a 52x Samsung CD-ROM drive, dated
> 2001!
> 
> My writeable drive is a Sony DVD+RW new drive on /dev/hda.
> 
> graveman detectd these drives correctly, however, when I ask it to copy
> a CD from hdb to hda, it asks me to load a CD in the Samsung drive. I
> load the CD and, if it's audio, it starts playing, but graveman never
> detects that the CD has ben loaded. Similarly for data CDs.
> 
> If I set the source drive to be the Sony on hda, then graveman does
> detect the loading of CDs into that drive. graveman then gives an error
> when it attempts to read the audio CD, but that's another problem.
> 
> So has anyone done this successfully with a similar combination of
> drives? Do I need a newer CD-ROM drive on hdb? Any ideas?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Tony.