On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jim Breton wrote:

> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:48:04 +0000
> From: Jim Breton <jamesb-netbsd@alongtheway.com>
> To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: reading directly from an ATAPI cd-rom device
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/rcd0d bs=2k|md5sum -
>
> Thanks, but did you see the rest of my message?
>
> "On NetBSD however, the disc spins and it appears to be working, but it
> takes forever (about 33 minutes with a 48X drive); and when it finally
> stops, it gives me the following error:
>

with RAW device (rcd0a) it will not take forever.

dd if=/dev/rcd0d bs=2k of=image takes about 7min on my 12x plextor