netbsd-users: Re: reading directly from an ATAPI cd-rom device

Subject: Re: reading directly from an ATAPI cd-rom device
To: Jim Breton <jamesb-netbsd@alongtheway.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/20/2001 11:54:40

> To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: reading directly from an ATAPI cd-rom device
>
> Hello, running NetBSD-release-1-5 on an i386 (P3-500) system.
>
> Is there a way for me to read directly from the cd-rom drive, for the
> purposes of checking MD5 sums of discs, etc.?

dd if=/dev/rcd0d bs=2k|md5sum -