Hi, Could someone check this out.
I was reading the cdrom writing howto and the howto gave a demo on how to copy a data cdrom directly to the harddisk. I tried this on an alpha and got the following result with /dev/scd0, and I also tried /dev/hda and got the same result. Both devices are cdroms and they work fine. It appeared that the system was locked for a short time but the system started responding after the command was complete. dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdrom.iso bs=8192 dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0+0 records in 0+0 records out dd: /dev/scd0: Bad file descriptor Of course I tried the same thing on my aging pentium pro (32ia) and it worked perfectly with all cdroms installed. Thanks for any input. Alan
