Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device | From | kernel <> | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:03:02 -0500 |
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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
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