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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:38:42 -0500
From:      devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org
To:        Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DD image of a CDROM
Message-ID:  <20020118133842.A34184@tharmas.rintrah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020118090529.A57267@sunder.touchtunes.com>; from dinjo@touchtunes.com on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:05:29AM -0500
References:  <20020118090529.A57267@sunder.touchtunes.com>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:05:29AM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to make a dd image of a data cdrom.
> 
> As root :
> 
> sunder# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=cdimage.iso
> dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000309 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> sunder# 
> 
> My cdrom *is* at /dev/acd0c. I use it everyday.
> 
> fstab :
> /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

specify a blocksize of 2048, i.e.  dd if=/dev/acd0c of=cdimage.iso bs=2048

--devin

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