Just occurred to me I should share this snippet, below, too. (It was in response to my report of a scsi error when reading a CD that had a failure while being written.)
luke On 19 Jan, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > I've seen that error before and it usually indicates > trying to read sectors that haven't be written. > For example it is unsafe to do this: > $ dd if=/dev/scd0 of=iso.img bs=2048 > because there are allowed to be unwritten sectors at > the end of an iso9660 image. Recent versions of util-linux > (from 2.10s onwards) contain "isosize". > $ isosize -d 2048 /dev/scd0 > will yield the actual number of sectors in an iso9660 image > on /dev/scd0. That number should be used as the "count" > argument to the above dd command. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
