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Re: dd and IO

From "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject Re: dd and IO
Date 2016-04-16 17:21 -0400
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"Jorgen Grahn" <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote in message 
news:slrnnh4otc.5q5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid...
> On Sat, 2016-04-16, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
>> news:1b37qmv543.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net...
>>
>>> You can't write to a CD/DVD with dd.  You have to use burning software
>>> that understands the media.
>>
>>     With dd I am trying to read from a CD/R and write an ISO.
>
> That wasn't very obvious in your first postings; I interpreted it the
> way JP did, too.

    Sorry. I have tried several things. In addition to the /dev/zero device.

>> That might be the problem. The CD/R isn't an ISO 9660.
>
> Doesn't almost every CD-ROM use that file system?  What does it use
> instead, and how do you know?

    XP says it's CDFS. I think that's an older format.

>> So it's not going to copy to a file I am creating called xpmce1.iso
>> is it.
>
> Of course it is!  dd doesn't care how you name your files.  And it
> doesn't care what file system it is -- it just copies blocks of data.

    That's what I thought. I have read to that it wants to cache. 
iflag=nocache I have tried and oflag=direct that doesn't work.

Bill

 

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