Re: Reading Windows CD on Linux 2.4.6

From: Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 06:09:12 EST


> # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd1.iso
> dd: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
> 1440+0 records in
> 1440+0 records out
>
> # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cd2.iso bs=2k
> dd: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
> 360+0 records in
> 360+0 records out
>
> # cp /dev/cdrom /tmp/cd3.iso
> cp: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>
> # ls -l /tmp/cd*
> -rw------- 1 root root 737280 Sep 17 14:09 /tmp/cd1.iso
> -rw------- 1 root root 737280 Sep 17 14:10 /tmp/cd2.iso
> -rw------- 1 root root 737280 Sep 17 14:11 /tmp/cd3.iso

AFAIK, that's normal because when a cd is burned, the last 2 sectors are
always unreadable.

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