Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
This is due to scratches, etc. on the CD. Try this ... dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso conv=noerror
Hi, I tried it out but this time instead of throwing errors and returning back to the prompt, it went on and on with these errors repeating with the speed slowly reducing. Here is a sample output below. I had to stop the process after 800+ seconds.
Regards,
Rony.
dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.128567 seconds (178055 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.187104 seconds (174784 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.245893 seconds (171619 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.304510 seconds (168574 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.369445 seconds (165326 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.422749 seconds (162751 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.481438 seconds (160007 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.540268 seconds (157349 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.558054 seconds (156562 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.580905 seconds (155563 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.609853 seconds (154315 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.642474 seconds (152933 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.668652 seconds (151842 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.686616 seconds (151102 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.715667 seconds (149921 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.733593 seconds (149201 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.759923 seconds (148156 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.783359 seconds (147238 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.812346 seconds (146119 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.835798 seconds (145226 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error 1088+0 records in 1088+0 records out 557056 bytes transferred in 3.860115 seconds (144311 bytes/sec) dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
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