From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 7:29:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F110A37B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opal (cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.101]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RET8107610 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:29:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@opal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dd command on a CD-ROM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried to read the content of a CD on FreeBSD 4.5 -release and got the following error: dell# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=diskfile bs=2k dd: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error 121311+0 records in 121311+0 records out 248444928 bytes transferred in 120.239987 secs (2066242 bytes/sec) dell# Jun 26 18:47:07 dell /kernel: acd0: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=64 ascq=00 error=01 Jun 26 18:47:07 dell /kernel: acd0: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=64 ascq=00 error=01 What are the possible reasons for this? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message