Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:00:56 -0500 |
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kernel wrote: > 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....
Use isoinfo to get the size in 2k sectors, then dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k count={size} of=my_file to pull the image. As noted elsewhere this doesn't work if the image isn't iso-9660.
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