improbably slow CD-ROM I/O

2003-09-18 Thread Dan Strick
On FreeBSD-4.8 I am trying to copy an iso image from a CD-ROM onto disk with the command: dd if=/dev/cd0c of=disk.iso bs=2k The reason for the small buffer size is that I don't want to risk losing the last few sectors on the CD-ROM because they didn't fill a full dd buffer. (Some disk

Re: improbably slow CD-ROM I/O

2003-09-18 Thread Guillaume
Le Jeu 18/09/2003 à 21:48, Dan Strick a écrit : Can someone explain what is happening? How should I go about making a copy of a CD? Thomas just sent me a patch for a similar problem. Check this thread: