Re: Recovering data from duff CDROM ?

On 2009-11-02, Mike Jones <Not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I burned a CDROM a short while back, and now can't get the damn thing to
mount (even though it would have been checked as OK prior to storage). As
its got data on it that is no longer available from source, I'm wondering
if anybody has any favorite tricks they've used to force a mount.

Once recovered one by forcing the drive to read it at a slow rate (1x speed
or 2x speed).

If I'm not mistaken, I did that by using hdparm:

hdparm -E 2 /dev/cdrom

Mind that you try your reading on a CD-ROM drive, not a DVD drive. Unless it
was burned on a DVD burner, in which case you use that one.

Min CD-ROM speed for a DVD device is 8x, of course.


Good luck.


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