Subj : copy images under OpenBSD
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Dec 06 2000 10:30 pm

Hi Lawrence.

05-Dec-00 07:09:39, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Ulrich Leutner


 LG> Ulrich Leutner said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

 UL>> No, i really did a dd. Please believe me :)

 LG> Okay. I do.

 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).

 UL>> No. The Problem is, that 650M is not the maxsize. Its about 700M.

 LG> Wait... is this a BLANK CD-R????

I think it's a CDROM he wants to make a copy of.
before it can be copied you need to know how big the original is...

 UL>> But the CD-Rs with 700M are more expensive and if i do not know
 UL>> the size, i risk to ruin a 650M CD-R.

 LG> Uh... are you planning to write more than 650MB to the CD-R?

I guess the answer there is maybe.

 LG> Methinks there's a bug in the device driver.

That or a bug in dd.

 -=> Bye <=-

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