getting data off a CDrom

[Irmen de Jong]

julien.lord at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to load data from 2 different CD drives to compare the data
> on them to see if they are identical.  I've found the WinCDRom module
> online but it doesn't seem to give access to the data at all. The only
> thing it seems to do is check if there is a readable cd in a specific
> drive.
> 
> Any ideas/suggestions/flames?

If you're on Linux this should do the trick, i think:

$ cmp /dev/scd0 /dev/scd1


--Irmen