On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:49:38 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > 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 "dd" has never included anything specific to optical drives and not tape drives either. It accesses I/O devices without any idea what underlying hardware is involved. > 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. And yet it may have been a side-effect of using a combination of CD-R and a particular CD writer that defaults to turning on the laser in a default mode and burning data in a compatible way (TAO or DAO mode), if the device driver sets up the hardware for writing. You would need to do some digging in kernel space, not "dd". Ancient FAQs on CD writing with Linux have never suggested using "dd", but always "cdrecord", "cdrdao" and similar tools. "dd" has been one method for creating ISO images from CDs as an alternative to "readcd". _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
