Re: dd bug or cdrom driver bug???

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> writes:

> On 27 Jul 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> 
> > Hum. Funny. I get an error, too:
> > 
> > % dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdrom.iso bs=8192
> > dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error
> > 0+0 records in
> > 0+0 records out
> > 
> > Note no "Bad file descriptor". Mounting works fine. cp gives the same
> > error, so it's not dd.
> > 
> > This is with kernel 2.2.14 and a SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec AHA-294X.
> 
> Do you have a '/dev/scd0'?  Could be that the major/minors are hosed on
> that device if you do...(just a wild guess).

Mounting /dev/scd0 works fine, and it looks like this:

brw-rw----    2 root     cdrom     11,   0 Jun  8 17:47 /dev/scd0

I have SCSI cdrom and generic as module, perhaps that makes a
difference, too...

	Falk