cat /dev/cdrom > mydisk.iso

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:54:31AM -0700, Shawn Tayler took 39 lines to write:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:33:13 -0700 Shawn Tayler <stayler at xmtservices.net>
> > exclaimed:
> >
> > > I always used bs=1k when dd'ing iso's...
> >
> > I am curious about the difference when the bs=1k as opposed to what you use
> > Kurt.  Is there an advantage?
>
> Beyond reading and writing larger chunks of data at a time, not
> necessarily. On the other hand, CD-ROMs have a natural block size of 2048
> bytes, so perhaps reading and writing in 2k blocks is the proper way to go.
> That's sheer speculation, of course.

hrmmm, what does dd default to when the bs isn't specified?  i've never
specified it for ripping CD's, and i always get good results.

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