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From: "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" <karl.kiniger@med.ge.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:42:21 +0100
Subject: Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:25:28PM +0100, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
>    On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:48:13 +0100, "Kiniger, Karl (GE Healthcare)" said:
> 
>    > I can confirm that. Creating a correct  iso image from a CD is a
>    > major pain w/o ide-scsi. Depending on what one has done before the iso
>    > image is missing some data at the end most of the time.
>    > (paired with lots of kernel error messages)
>    >
>    > Testing was done here using Joerg Schilling's sdd:
>    >
>    > sdd ivsize=`isosize /dev/cdxxx` if=/dev/cdxxx of=/dev/null \
>    >       bs=<several block sizes from 2048 up tried,does not matter>
>    >
>    > and most of the time it results in bad iso images....
> 
>    Have you tested the ISO on some *OTHER* hardware?  The impression I got
>    was that the cd was *burned* right by ide-cd, but when *read back*, it
>    bollixed things up at the end of the CD.....

Using ide-scsi is enough to get all the data till the real end of the CD.

Just to be sure I also generated an image with Nero and it was fine as well.
(all using the same drive(s)).

Karl

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