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 in so far that it didn't > yield an error > but after the DVD stopped spinning the command hung and I only could > bail out using ^C.
Try using bs=2048 . -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"