nos lenovo thinkpad r60e:

para ler:
cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile my_game_rip.bin --device /dev/cdrom --driver generic-mmc-raw my_game_rip.toc

para escrever:
cdrdao write --eject --speed 16 --device /dev/cdrom --driver generic-mmc my_game_rip.toc

http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/cdrecording/

para criar uma cópia de um dvd de vídeo:
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_d…

para criar uma cópia de um dvd de vídeo:

_CD=$PWD
mkdir ~/.dvd2iso
cd ~/.dvd2iso
sudo dvdbackup –M
ls>../.dvd2iso.tmp
chown $USERNAME –R ~/.dvd2iso
genisoimage –V “`cat ../.dvd2iso.tmp`” -o“`cat ../.dvd2iso.tmp`.iso” -dvd-video “./`cat ../.dvd2iso.tmp`”
mv “`cat ../.dvd2iso.tmp`.iso” “/$_CD/”
rm ../.dvd2iso.tmp
rm –r ~/.dvd2iso
cd $_CD

gravar o script como /usr/bin/dvd2iso e correr o comando "chmod 777 /usr/bin/dvd2iso" como root.

http://www.scribd.com/josiah_kerley/d/56951556-How-to-copy-a-DVD

copiar um cd de audio:

extrair músicas
icedax dev=/dev/sr0 -B

extrair apenas um conjunto de pistas
icedax dev=/dev/sr0 -B -d0 -t12+18

gravar músicas
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,2,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav

http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Duplicate_Audio0.html

método alternativo - copiar um cd de audio:

To copy an audio CD in the most accurate way, first run
icedax dev=/dev/cdrom -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav
and then run
wodim dev=/dev/cdrw -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav
This will try to copy track indices and to read CD-Text information from disk. If there is no CD-Text information, icedax will try to get the information from freedb.org instead.
To copy an audio CD from a pipe (without intermediate files), first run
icedax dev=1,0 -vall cddb=0 -info-only
and then run
icedax dev=1,0 -no-infofile -B -Oraw - | \
wodim dev=2,0 -v -dao -audio -useinfo -text *.inf
This will get all information (including track size info) from the *.inf files and then read the audio data from stdin.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/wodim

ver também este para dvd:
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html