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Making a copy of an Magneto Optical Disk
We are trying to make duplicates of some Magneto Optical Disks that were created in Irix 6.5. The disks are 2.3 gig and the using a scsi MOD drive. Is there possbily a disk copy like in dos or some simple script to do this - any help appreciated.

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mkudffs

MKUDFFS(1)						    System Management Commands							MKUDFFS(1)

NAME

       mkudffs - create an UDF filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkudffs [ switches ] device [ blocks-count ]

DESCRIPTION

       mkudffs	is  used  to  create  a  UDF filesystem on a device (usually a disk).  device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g
       /dev/hdX). blocks-count is the number of blocks on the device.  If omitted, mkudffs automagically figures the file system size.

OPTIONS

       --help Display the usage and list of options.

       -b,--blocksize= block-size
	      Specify the size of blocks in bytes. Valid block size vales are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes per block. If omitted, mkudffs	block-size
	      is 2048.

       -r,--udfrev= udf-revision
	      Specify the udf revision to use. Valid revisions are 0x0201, 0x0200, 0x0150, and 0x0102. If omitted, mkudffs udf-revision is 0x0201.

       --lvid= logical-volume-ident
	      Specify the logical volume identifier.

       --vid= volume-ident
	      Specify the volume identifier.

       --vsid= volume-set-ident
	      Specify the volume set identifier.

       --fsid= file-set-ident
	      Specify the file set identifier.

       --strategy= strategy
	      Specify the allocation strategy to use. Valid strategies are 4 and 4096.	If omitted, mkudffs strategy is based on the media-type.

       --spartable= spartable-number
	      Specify the number of sparing tables to write to disc. Valid numbers are 1 - 4.  This option implies --media-type=cdrw.

       --media-type= media-type
	      Specify the media type. Valid media types are:

		   hd		   hard drive

		   dvd		   DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)

		   dvdram	   DVD-RAM (Digital Versatile Disc-Random Access Memory)

		   worm 	   WORM (Write Once Ready Many)

		   mo		   MO (Magneto Optical)

		   cdrw 	   CD-RW (CD Read-Write)

       --space= space

		   freedbitmap	   Freed bitmap

		   freedtable	   Freed table

		   unallocbitmap   Unallocated bitmap

		   unalloctable    Unallocated table

       --ad= ad

		   inicb	   Allocation Descriptors in ICB

		   short	   Short Allocation Descriptors

		   long 	   Long Allocation Descriptors

       --noefe
	      Don't Use Extended File Entries

       --u8   Use 8-bit unicode for file names

       --u16  Use 16-bit unicode for file names

       --utf8 Use UTF-8 for file names

EXIT STATUS

       mkudffs returns 0 if successful, non-zero if there are problems.

AUTHOR

       Ben Fennema <bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>

AVAILABILITY

       mkudffs is part of the udftools package and is available from http://linux-udf.sourceforge.net.

udftools-1.0.0b2						    2002-02-09								MKUDFFS(1)