Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:48:13 +0100, "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" said:

> I can confirm that. Creating a correct  iso image from a CD is a
> major pain w/o ide-scsi. Depending on what one has done before the iso
> image is missing some data at the end most of the time.
> (paired with lots of kernel error messages)
> 
> Testing was done here using Joerg Schilling's sdd:
> 
> sdd ivsize=`isosize /dev/cdxxx` if=/dev/cdxxx of=/dev/null \
> 	bs=<several block sizes from 2048 up tried,does not matter>
> 
> and most of the time it results in bad iso images....

Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware?  The impression I got
was that the cd was *burned* right by ide-cd, but when *read back*, it
bollixed things up at the end of the CD.....

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