Subj : copy images under OpenBSD
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Ulrich Leutner
Date : Fri Dec 01 2000 12:28 am

Servus, Lawrence!

29 Nov 00 20:03, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Jasen Betts:

 LG> I think he did something other than do a dd of the CDROM. :-)
 LG> I've never ... -never- ... seen a case where dd was required to know
 LG> the size of the object prior to the execution of the copy.

Hey, i aint THAT supid.
No, i really did a dd. Please believe me :)

 LG> Even -if- that were the case, it's a simple matter to define the
 LG> maxsize as 1280000 blocks (640MB of 512 byte blocks).

No. The Problem is, that 650M is not the maxsize. Its about 700M.
But the CD-Rs with 700M are more expensive and if i do not know the size, i 
risk to ruin a 650M CD-R.
AND all those things like read out the whole maxsize are bad hacks :)

 LG> Of course.. if he misinterpreted the count of 512 byte blocks as
 LG> Kbytes, then I can see where one might hit 1000000 blocks on a 500MB
 LG> CDROM and think it was a GigaByte.

It were about 4,5G :)

   Ulli        _PRO42_

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