From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 19:02:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4443D16A403 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:02:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jc.devilla@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9595043D55 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:02:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jc.devilla@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o1so1190525nzf for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rFVAJulSWX4f2MlPYQUi7peBkriEpjWr48HluxbnAoxXGAZRJ7OpPX/2ukUYD5PFqrgIWICeJ1NsXOZkNxskIxHzSe2fkhGA6KgnHwtPNMBEXuF19PC6xxEG0bsFQv0IYaXcFo4ZfAALLP6KL59bCV0elhuEdsCYZXCOU58DFhE= Received: by 10.36.220.10 with SMTP id s10mr6867644nzg; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.232.166? ( [203.87.196.234]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j7sm3266803nzd.2006.06.25.12.02.19; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <449EDE85.5040704@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:05:41 +0800 From: Migs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060514) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: dd wont work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:02:27 -0000 I've already looked around and found that dd will work on cd's only if the bs=2k argument is present. However, ive tried it both without (before knowing this) and with the argument, but I still cant pick up an image of the cd. I know that this should work: dd if=/dev/cd0 of=~/file.iso bs=2k but it doesn't. I always get a dd: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000225 secs (0 bytes/sec) I'm on 6.1 releng by the way, and the cd im trying to dd is knoppix. My combo drive is a 'LITE-ON ' 'COMBO SOHC-5236V' 'R$09' Removable CD-ROM thats a slave on ide0. What else should I be looking at? -- Migs Registered Linux user # 381619, but has shifted to FreeBSD Random Musings (http://lifelin.blogspot.com/)