Mixed-mode CD Labels

[David Elliott]

On 2001.12.30 03:34 Chris Green wrote:

> If anyone has an odd CD lying around, they can email me the first 65536
> bytes
> of the CD (hopefully no vendor will care about copyright on their volume
> descriptors!) so I can compare the structure of the volume descriptors -
> I've
> got about 8 of them so far, just use 'dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cd.dmp bs=65536
> count=1' and compress the result before emailing it to me :)
> 
hmm, wouldn't dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.dmp bs=2048 count=32 be better?

Maybe it doesn't make a damn bit of difference, but as the blocksize on 
cds is 2048 bytes I think it makes more sense to say gimme the first 32 
2048-byte sectors.

-Dave