It seems Donn Miller wrote:
> Say I do something like
>
> find /cdrom
>
> is the HD light supposed to be blinking as if the hard drives are being
> accessed? I did the above command (note that it doesn't involve finding
> files on the hard drives at all), and basically the HD light and the cdrom
> activity light were flashing together.
Depends, some ATAPI devices use the activity LED some dont...
> I have a BTC 24X ATAPI cdrom drive. I'd like to check to see if anyone
> on this list has one of these, and if so, have you had any problems? For
> example, if I do
>
> dd if=/dev/racd0c of=cd.img
>
> the file cd.img is zero-length, dd hangs (ignores ^C totally), and I get
> messages like
That because you miss a bs=2k, a CDROM has a 2k sector size, and depending
on the drives firmware you get different results when you try a blocksize
that is no modulo 2k, your's apparently looses its whits.
-Søren
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