On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 11:58, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> now can we move on to more interesting subjects?  please? :)

OK.

> 
> for instance, how come whenever I dump a CD to my machine (with dd into
> an iso file) it always dies 1-2 kilobytes befor the end of the image
> saying read error?
> happens with 3 different drives (SCSI and IDE), and the burnt image size
> is anywhere from 50-700 meg. both off CD-roms and CD-Rs.

hmpf.. have you tried running strace on the dd and see exactly what
error it is getting? might help you understand what's going on.


> Naked Chef

Great balls of fire,
Gilad. ;-)


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