Subject: Re: cdrecord and generic ATAPI drive
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/11/2001 16:52:28
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Peter Seebach wrote:
> This does what I mean ("compare file to CD") on BSD/OS, but on NetBSD/Alpha,
> I get:
> stdin 43-beta.img differ: char 32769, line 1
>
> If I put the CD in another drive and run the diff, it doesn't think they're
> different.  What did I botch?  :)

I think this has to do with NetBSD not handling non-512 byte block
sizes. Try "dd if=/dev/rcd${i}c bs=2k ..." instead. (And maybe see PR
#3261)