Backing up VCD's

[santner]

I have some old(10 months) VCD's that were created with the sony handycam software that came with my camcorder. I now would like to back them up to my harddrive so that if the disc ever becomes corrupted/breaks, then I won't lose that precious footage. I have tried:

 

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

 

but it says that the disc is write protected, and it is mounting it as read-only. Is there any way around this? These vcd's are of my 10 month old dauther, so it's very important that I don't lose this data.

 

Shane B)

[tyme]

Them being mounted read-only is normal for a cd-rom (or vcd as it is in this case)

 

You can still read off of them and back up the data...you just can't write to them. This is a normal "warning" message when mounting a CD.

[santner]

When I try to copy to data from the disk, i.e.:

 

cp /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos/

 

I receive some sort of Input/Output Error and I end up with a bunch of empty directories in /mnt/Videos. Is there another/better way to copy the data from my vcd to the harddrive? Thanks tyme,

[tyme]

try:

cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos/

 

the -r is for recursive. what's the I/O error?

[santner]

Actually I used:

 

cp -fr /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos

 

I didn't have time to write down the error this morning. I will make a note of it tonight and update this post tomorrow. In the meantime......

[santner]

Here is what I found out:

 

cp -fr /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq02.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq03.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq04.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0001.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0002.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0003.dat': Input/output error

 

So I typed:

 

dmesg

request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4136

Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1034

hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hdc: command error: error=0x50

end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4140

Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1035

hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hdc: command error: error=0x50

end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4144

etc....................

 

Does this scream out anything?

[tyme]

screams out "bad cd" to me... :/

[santner]

I know, I know. But it works. In other words it plays with mplayer. And it is not just that one vcd, it is ALL of them. Probably around 20 or so. My cdrom drive is 3+ years old, maybe could be the drive?

[ramfree17]

why not just copy the dat file (in the mpeg folder i think) itself and create a new VCD copy from it? nero has that capability and i think k3b can do that too (generate the other files needed).

 

ciao!