Re: looking for a fast way to dump a dvd to a file on my hdd

On Wed, 02.02.2011 at 12:04:58 -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> On 02/02/11 11:54, Alexander Best wrote:
> > so far dd(1) with a bs=2048 finished after:
> > 
> > 4676648960 bytes transferred in 1639.108763 secs (2853166 bytes/sec)
> 
> Just curious - how will recoverdisk(1) perform?  I haven't tried it
> myself but it uses much larger window which could be faster.

+1 for recoverdisk. I hacked it so that it will also cope with media
that has weird sectorsizes like 2352 bytes. It is awesome for reading
optical media now, thanks to retries, large read requests and the
ability to save progress (so you can try the failing sectors in another
drive).

Regards,
Uli