viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i thought originally that dd would work and tried to 'image' > a couple of CDs, but they came out to different sizes although > both were 650MB CDs. The disk sizes differed by about 3 MB, > so i assumed dd was missing something. Imaging 2 floppies > yielded different sized images as well.
CDs are different from floppies. It's normal that different CDs have different sizes (and AFAIK, there's no clear end marker, so I wouldn't be surprised if the readable area is larger with some drivers than with others). -- Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT fax +49-711-685-5898
