Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:59:08 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: duplicating cd's with dd. Message-ID: <199808292159.VAA10620@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Aug 1998 14:31:48 %2B1000." <199808300433.VAA10036@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > does anyone know if there are "preferred" parameters for using dd to > copy cd's with ? You can improve performance slightly with a larger block size (fewer syscalls), but that's about it. I use 64K as an arbitrary figure; it seems to run about as fast as the drive will go. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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