On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:15:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:48:13PM +0100, 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.... > > I have only ever used his readcd program for doing such things. It has > been so long I can't even remember if it was using ide-scsi or ide-cd. > > For burning I use ide-cd with cdrecord and growisofs, and so far it has > worked great. Flashing firmware on the plextor still requires ide-scsi > though.
Burning has not been the problem here, just reading. At least `isosize /dev/cdxxx` bytes have to be readable and I am always burning with additional pad sectors at the end and even 32kb were not always enough to get all files contents...... Karl > > Lennart Sorensen -- Karl Kiniger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GE Medical Systems Kretztechnik GmbH & Co OHG Tiefenbach 15 Tel: (++43) 7682-3800-710 A-4871 Zipf Austria Fax: (++43) 7682-3800-47 - 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/
