Subject: how many bytes on a CD?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2002 12:29:48
Is there any way to tell how many bytes are actually on a CD?
Per http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2000/04/06/0003.html,
I've written a small C program to copy a CD to a .iso file. It works,
but I'd rather not get ugly console messages about check conditions.
In theory, I would think I could look at the disk label. But I haven't
found any rational relationships between the number of bytes I can
read and the values that disklabel reports. For example, on one test
CD there are 10518528 bytes, both according to my program and according
to 'dd' on the cooked device with a blocksize of 512. Disklabel says
disklabel: can't read master boot record: Invalid argument
# /dev/rcd0d:
type: ATAPI
disk: \004\000\000
label: fictitious
flags: removable
bytes/sector: 2048
sectors/track: 100
tracks/cylinder: 1
sectors/cylinder: 100
cylinders: 120
total sectors: 11906
rpm: 300
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
4 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a: 47624 0 ISO9660 # (Cyl. 0 - 476*)
d: 47624 0 ISO9660 # (Cyl. 0 - 476*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0
disklabel: partition a: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition d: partition extends past end of unit
(Some of the values are larger for a bigger CD I checked.)