On 12/05/2016 12:39 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/05/2016 11:09 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
The safe cmdline way for burning discs has been "cdrecord" for many
years.
It may be that "dd" could write to special preformatted discs and
possibly
with hardware and media that would work together by default. I don't
think
it has ever been a fully supported method.
I really don't understand why some people insist on using dd when
there are easy to use *command line* programs that handle the quirks
of random cd drives. It's way better now, but I remember when cd/dvd
drives really did have weird quirks and it was "fun" trying to find
the right parameters to get a successful write.
Glad you say you do not understand.
You do NOT have to understand why the question is being asked.
Suffice it to say that this destruction of the dd functionality is NEW in
linux releases. As far as I can recall, it was not there until as
recently as
f19 or f20. As I explained in another reply - I "had" been able to burn iso
images to media using dd since the earliest availability of optical media
and iso creation software.
Look what this guy found out in Nov 2015.
http://www.stevepedwards.com/DebianAdmin/2555-2/
Somewhere at the bottom find an example of writing to /dev/sr0 with "dd"
after taking several hurdles.
And when you get to the bottom, you find out that he really doesn't
understand how dd works with his discussion about block sizes...
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