Mixed-mode CD Labels

[Chris Green]

On Sunday 30 December 2001 20:04, you wrote:
> > 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.
>

six of one, half-a-dozen of the other :) they give the same data, I just 
often go for large block sizes and smaller counts - some read-ahead type 
operations run faster, I find, if you do that. I don't mind either way :)

Chris