Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Reading Windows CD on Linux 2.4.6 | Date | 17 Sep 2001 16:08:10 -0700 |
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Followup to: <3BA6791A.616636CE@MissionCriticalLinux.com> By author: Bruce Blinn <blinn@MissionCriticalLinux.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I do not think the disk is missing data or that there are any bad > blocks. The reason I say this is because I can access every file on the > disk when the CD is mounted as an iso9660 file system on a 2.2.19 > kernel. I compared the files with the originals and they are identical. > > The only reason I found out dd would not copy the disk is because Masoud > asked for an image. > I tried using dd to copy a much larger CD (150 Mb) and it fails at the > same place and the resulting file is the same size (737280 bytes). So > it fails long before the end of the data. > > By the way, dd works fine when copying other CDs that were not created > under Windows. >
This almost seems to imply they're recording the data noncontiguously, which would be totally bizarre but not totally impossible.
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