dvdisaster Version 0.64 (pl2)
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Contents

Overview
Examples and screen shots
Download
Command line mode
·Using the command line
·Creating a medium image
·Generating error correction files
·Scanning the medium for errors
·Recovering a medium image
·Choosing alternative drives and file names
·Performing several actions within one program call
·Command syntax
Questions and Answers
Background information
Imprint

Creating the medium image

Most actions of dvdisaster are performed on a medium image residing on your hard drive. This makes things faster and reduces wear of your CD/DVD drive.

In order to create the medium image:

  • Change into a directory with enough free storage space.
  • Insert the medium into the drive.
  • Read the medium image onto the hard disk:
user@linux> dvdisaster -r
dvdisaster-0.64pl2 Copyright 2004,2005 Carsten Gnoerlich.
This software comes with  ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This
is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it
under the conditions of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
See the file "COPYING" for further information.

Device: /dev/cdrom,  ATAPI DVD+RW 8X4X12 B2K7
Medium: DVD+R, 2224288 sectors, 1 layer(s)

Creating new medium.img image.
Waiting 5 seconds for drive to spin up...
Read position: 100.0% ( 6.3x)
All sectors successfully read.

The percentage of already read sectors and the current drive speed will be shown during the process.

Upon completion you will find the image file medium.img in the current directory:

user@linux> ls -lA
-rwx------ 1 user linux 4555341824 2004-07-02 21:31 medium.img

The default setting is to read from drive /dev/cdrom and to create file names beginning with medium. Of course it is possible to select other drives and file names.

Generating the error correction file...

Copyright 2004,2005 Carsten Gnörlich.
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