md5 of /dev/acd0

2010-03-08 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a FreeBSD 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got Invalid argument. Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md5 worked in so far that it didn't yield an error but after the DVD

Re: md5 of /dev/acd0

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 08 March 2010 11:25:20 Christoph Kukulies wrote: I was trying to determine a md5sum from a DVD I had inserted into a FreeBSD 8.0 on my Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. I thought dd if=/dev/acd0 | md5 would work but I got Invalid argument. Trying dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=1048k | md5 worked