Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:34:34 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Reading Windows CD on Linux 2.4.6 |
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:08:10PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. >
I've seen commercial CD do this. Maybe that dd trick to skip empty parts and pad with zeros would work... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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