On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:48, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote: > I can confirm that. Creating a correct iso image from a CD is a > major pain w/o ide-scsi. Depending on what one has done before the iso > image is missing some data at the end most of the time. > (paired with lots of kernel error messages) > > Testing was done here using Joerg Schilling's sdd: > > sdd ivsize=`isosize /dev/cdxxx` if=/dev/cdxxx of=/dev/null \ > bs=<several block sizes from 2048 up tried,does not matter> > > and most of the time it results in bad iso images....
Karl, what about catting out that device? I.E., 'cat /dev/cdxxx > some.iso' *instead* of using 'dd' (or variants) against it? I've always had good results using 'cat' and CDs, avoiding 'dd' and CDs whenever the opportunity presents itself. regards, -fd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
