On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:17:43AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Thought i buy mysely a new TEAC CDROM as my old one was getting a bit noisy. > > Problem is when i now run this command "cmp /dev/hdd > /home/mark/something.iso" i get this error: cmp: /dev/hdd: > Input/output error > I believe you need to cat or dd the contents of the mounted CD and pipe it to cmp. I believe I saw something about it in a CDROM howto or something.