Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:37:57 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dmmiller@cvzoom.net (Donn Miller) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about atapi cdrom behavior (BTC 24X) Message-ID: <200002201237.NAA91290@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0002200626530.404-100000@lcm208.cvzoom.net> from Donn Miller at "Feb 20, 2000 06:39:25 am"
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It seems Donn Miller wrote: > Say I do something like > > find /cdrom > > is the HD light supposed to be blinking as if the hard drives are being > accessed? I did the above command (note that it doesn't involve finding > files on the hard drives at all), and basically the HD light and the cdrom > activity light were flashing together. Depends, some ATAPI devices use the activity LED some dont... > I have a BTC 24X ATAPI cdrom drive. I'd like to check to see if anyone > on this list has one of these, and if so, have you had any problems? For > example, if I do > > dd if=/dev/racd0c of=cd.img > > the file cd.img is zero-length, dd hangs (ignores ^C totally), and I get > messages like That because you miss a bs=2k, a CDROM has a 2k sector size, and depending on the drives firmware you get different results when you try a blocksize that is no modulo 2k, your's apparently looses its whits. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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