create .iso images?

[Ed Fletcher]

Wouter Eerdekens wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:31:07 -0800, Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca> wrote:
> 
>>>>Anyone know what's going on?
>>
>>Nope.  Still gives me a one meg file with an error message:
>>cat: /dev/hdc: Input/output error
>>cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>>cat: /dev/dvd: Input/output error
>>
>>Doesn't like whatever I call it.  :-(
> 
> 
> Any chance this is one of them fancy copy-protected CD's? like a recent game
> or so? They tend to corrupt the ToC of the CD in such a manner that one cannot
> create an image from it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wouter
> 

Thanks for all the responses.  Turns out that Wouter had the right 
answer.  It was a copy protected dvd.  Once I'd made a backup, I was 
able to make a .iso file from that.

Thanks again to all for the pointers and help.

Ed
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