[gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. Increasing the block size does make it /almost/ as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes.Aside

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 23:56, Hani Duwaik wrote: On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if