Re: [Bashburn-info] Copy Data CD to CD Issues

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> =>It is a bit hairy, but I don't know what else to do.
> =>
> =>I check if the device mount point $BBCDMNT is mounted
> =>Then later umount it, eject,  before we get asked to put in a blank
> CD. =>
> =>This, of course, will all fail if the device is wrong, or if it is
> =>mounted elsewhere.  But its better than what we had.
> 
> Nick, I took a poke at fixing up datafunc. It does need to be tested.
> 
> Instead of mount | grep to see if the cd is mounted, just
> grep /etc/mtab. Also, I took out that mkisofs -o fn | cdrecord fn
> construct. It was the same as cat zzz | cat zzz only worse. The first
> cat (mkisofs) had a -o to specify an output filename. Then the second
> cat (cdrecord) had a filename on the commandline so it never read
> from the pipe. Now the data really is going through the pipe.

OK, I will test tomorrow.  Football soon, Pompey in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/football/europe/7639445.stm

Also I now have about 395 'Best of Thin Lizzy' CD's and around 125 'Deep
Purple Machine Head' Cd's....  lol

Nick
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