From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 12:54:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634F837B7BD for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:54:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-26.delaware.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.59.26] helo=freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) by cmailg6.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12cZP2-0000ln-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:54:21 +0100 Message-ID: <38EA48C0.D557339@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 20:55:45 +0100 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: dd reading atapi cdrom References: <200004041346.GAA63809@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to everyone who replied. bs=2048 does the trick -- ianjhart Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <38E559C6.7F5979D3@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk>, ian j hart > writes: > > I'm used to doing this > > > > #dd if=/dev/acd0c of=image > > > > [followed by vnconfig, mount, share using samba] > > > > This fails under 4.0-STABLE. The error message is Bad address. No data > > is transfered. This is reprodusable on three machines. Also fails on > > LS120, without error message. > > > > Am I doing something stupid. Don't answer that! Has anyone got a work > > around/better method. Compressing the file would be nice :-) > > Try using the raw device. > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message