[PLUG] Copying CD/DVD with two drives

[drew wymore]

I googled for you and came up with this ..

http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Direct_Copy.html

I had to remove my Linux install on my laptop so I can burn a factory CD
from the hidden partition (thanks acer!) .. so I can tell you the viability
of this method but its worth a shot just exchange the /dev/cdrom for the
second burner and maybe check out "man cdrecord" of which K3B is just a
front end.

Drew-

On 4/13/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My new Fedora 7 test3 amd64 desktop has two identical LG DVD+-RW dual
> layer drives. I did this deliberately thinking that it would be more
> efficient when copying CDs and DVDs. But I am having a terrible time.
> K3b recognizes both drives, but is unwilling to copy from one and write
> to the other at the same time. It insists that it must write to the
> same drive that it copies from, so it must copy to the hard drive,
> eject the first media, wait for a new blank disk to be inserted, then
> write to the new blank disk. If this is the best Linux software can
> accomplish, then the $50 spent on the second drive was wasted.
>
> Gnomebaker is even worse. It can see only /dev/scd0. It is unaware
> that /dev/scd1 exists.
>
> I need software that can copy from one directly to the other. Does such
> exist for Linux? Or is there a way to make K3b or Gnomebaker wake up
> and realize that it is possible to copy a CD or DVD without first
> writing it to the hard disk?
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