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

[Bill Davidsen]

kernel wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:48, Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>
> > 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....

Use isoinfo to get the size in 2k sectors, then
  dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2k count={size} of=my_file
to pull the image. As noted elsewhere this doesn't work if the image 
isn't iso-9660.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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