On Thursday 24 May 2007 15:59, Incoming Mail List wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to understand why I cannot read my CD drive directly from a > 'c' program using the read(2) system call, or even using the dd(1) > command. As you will see, I have both the acd0 and cd0 devices since > I have atapicam configured in the kernel. > > I can mount cdrom media using mount() and access data via the cd9660 > file system, so I know the drive and the media are not the problem. > > #dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null count=20 > dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000163 secs (0 bytes/sec) > > #dd if=/dev/cd0 of=/dev/null count=20 > dd: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000179 secs (0 bytes/sec)
You have to define the sector size explicitly, otherwise your read(2)s will fail. You can use a multiple of 2048. dd uses by default a 512 byte length buffer. root:0:~# dd if=/dev/acd0 bs=2048 count=10 of=/dev/null 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 20480 bytes transferred in 4.110981 secs (4982 bytes/sec) That's for the so-called "data" CDs, the block size you have to use for audio CDs is 2352. HTH, Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"