Subject: Re: dd from raw devices
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2000 23:48:48
In message <20000524200338.A22593@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>>So, what I think is happening is, we're reading 110,000 2048-blocks from the
>>CD, even though what it really has is 110,000 512-blocks.

As someone pointed out, I dropped a 0.

>My big question
>>is, where does the extra data come from?  It didn't look to be zero-filled.

>it's not stuff like block 0123, block 1234, block 2345...
>...is it?

I don't know, I didn't get a chance to look.  Anyone had any good or bad luck
with those Kenwood multi-beam drives?  It otherwise mostly seems to work,
although it gave a dire warning about dropping back to PIO mode.

-s