Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 01:08:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware meltdown or cosmic ray? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004290106590.19658-100000@barricuda.bsd.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <14602.26788.441429.641364@whale.home-net>
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> Ok. I've got a question I know that one of you SCSI gurus can help with. I was > copying some CDs (data) tonight. Rather than chance buffer underrun, I was > copying the entire disc onto an empty chunk o' disk, then burning those ISOs. > The command I submitted to copy the cd was: > > dd if=/dev/cd0c of=disc.iso > > It chugged along with about 200Mb or so snarfed off the disc, then I got these > messages appearing on my console and the whole SCSI subsystem went "dead" > (during the timeouts) This probably has no relavence what so ever, but I'll offer it anyway. Since CD's have 2048 byte sectors, I'd recommend using that for dd's blocksize. Maybe it will work better? ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris@nospam.hiwaay.net> | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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