Thank you. That workaround worked perfectly.

as for that volume "drwx------ 3 bodach admin - 102 Jun 11 2005 LATHAM;MAINCOMPUTER"

I was wondering about it as well. I believe that it is from when I was logged into a friend's windows network. His workgroup was called LATHAM and the computer was MAINCOMPUTER. Why is this still here. Can I delete it? If yes, how?

Thanks for all of your help.
-Jeff

If you are logged in as bodach, then all you should have to do is launch Terminal and copy/paste the following command:

rm -r /Volumes/LATHAM\;MAINCOMPUTER

Note that the backslash before the semicolon is not a mistype--that is so that the semicolon is used explicitly and not as a divider between commands.

After issueing the command above, you should get no response, just another prompt. If that happens, everything went well and the directory and its contents were deleted. You can verify that it's gone with ls -al /Volumes

If you get an error message, let us know and we'll help further.

Trevor

Thank you! All worked perfectly.
-Jeff

Yeah, and you have to be computer scientist to do it. I have 10.3.9 and I'm telling you the "image from device" option is greyed out with an audio CD and not a data CD, and I'm selecting the device, not the partition name.

The workaround proposed by someone else (below) by choosing "Image from Folder" and navigating to the mount point under "/Volumes" works, but it's a pain in the ass and takes forever.

Importing into iTunes (after insuring to select WAV format or lossless format for full fidelity) then burning is also indirect.

I should be able to insert the CD, right click on it, select duplicate, and that's it.

This didn't work for me.
It just creates a data CD with aiff sound files, even though I picked DVD/CD master and the image had a *.cdr extension.
There's NO WAY to copy CD's without importing into iTunes. I think this is part of Apple's iTunes deal -- prevent people from making fair-use backups with their software.

The only way I am aware of to exactly duplicate an audio CD on a mac is to use unix tools
try cdrdao
or X-cdroast
via Fink or darwin ports
Both work flawlessly for me
Check out also MAX 0.6 the first "secure" CD ripper for mac osx which can rip a cd as one long track with a cue file that you should be able to burn with cdrdao

Although I'm convinced that I tested the truth of this statement using Disk Utility before posting, I find that I cannot now reproduce this with Disk Utility. I am now also finding that New > Disk Image from (Select a Device) is grayed out with audio CDs.

In any event, if Disk Utility cannot do it, it can still be done very easily using other tools. Squabsy mentions cdrdao above, which is a free command-line program. I've also done this many times using Toast.

Trevor

Trevor,

thanks for those steps. They seemed to work, only the audio CD I was dealing with was maxed out on space (right around 700MB). When it was converted to a CD/DVD Master, somehow it expanded to 866MB, which prevented me from then burning any copies from it. Do you know why this happened?

Jonathan