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From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff)
Subject: Re: Experience with double-speed CD drives?
Message-ID: <1994Jan6.203513.18085@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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Organization: McMaster University
References: <JKH.94Jan3234302@whisker.lotus.ie>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 20:35:13 GMT
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In article 94Jan3234302@whisker.lotus.ie, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> In article <1994Jan3.030243.19830@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes:
>    Ah yes, that's better.  I also get ~330Kb/s using the raw device.
> 
> How odd, I can't use the raw device at all!  I wonder what I'm doing
> wrong.. (And no, the drive isn't mounted)..
> 
> jkh@whisker-> sx dd if=/dev/rcd0d of=/dev/null 
> dd: /dev/rcd0d: Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 1 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> 				Jordan
> --
> (Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
> FreeBSD Core Team, American Liver Association, Hedgehog Breeders Society

I was running 1.0.2 when I tried this, not current.  How about you?

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