Re: raw disk access
viv <viv@veeev.com> writes:
> i thought originally that dd would work and tried to 'image'
> a couple of CDs, but they came out to different sizes although
> both were 650MB CDs. The disk sizes differed by about 3 MB,
> so i assumed dd was missing something. Imaging 2 floppies
> yielded different sized images as well.
CDs are different from floppies. It's normal that different CDs have
different sizes (and AFAIK, there's no clear end marker, so I wouldn't
be surprised if the readable area is larger with some drivers than
with others).
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Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
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