Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >> I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos >> produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror >> would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny, preferably with some sort >> of reference or test. > > I've never tried with conv=noerror, but dd has worked fine for me on > several occasions when extracting ISO images from data CDs and DVDs. > > I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same > result and are faster.
dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
