From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:08:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:08:06 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:38160 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:07:54 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Reading Windows CD on Linux 2.4.6 Date: 17 Sep 2001 16:08:10 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <9o5voq$21d$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <3BA6791A.616636CE@MissionCriticalLinux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <3BA6791A.616636CE@MissionCriticalLinux.com> By author: Bruce Blinn In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I do not think the disk is missing data or that there are any bad > blocks. The reason I say this is because I can access every file on the > disk when the CD is mounted as an iso9660 file system on a 2.2.19 > kernel. I compared the files with the originals and they are identical. > > The only reason I found out dd would not copy the disk is because Masoud > asked for an image. > I tried using dd to copy a much larger CD (150 Mb) and it fails at the > same place and the resulting file is the same size (737280 bytes). So > it fails long before the end of the data. > > By the way, dd works fine when copying other CDs that were not created > under Windows. > This almost seems to imply they're recording the data noncontiguously, which would be totally bizarre but not totally impossible. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt