>Would someone with some scratch space kindly verify whether or not I'm
>deranged:
>
>	$ dd if=/dev/cd0a of=cd
>
>I believe this should come up with a CD image.
>
>It comes up with something 4 times the size of a CD image.

# uname -a
NetBSD ebola 1.4Y NetBSD 1.4Y (RESTON) #15: Sat May 13 22:14:42 EDT 2000     andrew@ebola:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RESTON i386
# dd if=/dev/cd0a of=cd
45840+0 records in
45840+0 records out
23470080 bytes transferred in 9 secs (2607786 bytes/sec)
# ls -l cd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  23470080 May 25 14:46 cd

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