readom command examples

readom – read or write data Compact Discs

For all examples below, it will be assumed that the drive is connected to the primary SCSI bus of the machine. The SCSI target id is set to 2.

To read the complete media from a CD-ROM writing the data to the file cdimage.raw:

#readom dev=2,0 f=cdimage.raw

To read sectors from range 150 … 10000 from a CD-ROM writing the data to the file cdimage.raw:

#readom dev=2,0 sectors=150-10000 f=cdimage.raw

To write the data from the file cdimage.raw (e.g. a filesystem image from genisoimage) to a DVD-RAM, call:

#readom dev=2,0 -w f=cdimage.raw