DD is not working

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, cj wrote:

> the subject says it all.
>
> I need to make some CD images because im borrowing some cds.
>
> I used "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/debian/name.iso" and it gave me:
>
> dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.0023667 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>
> I mounted the cd rom before running the DD command
>
> what do i do? i googled it with absolutely no results (or any results
> pertaining to ubuntu 7.04)

Try one of these:

- sudo or su and then dd

- umount the mount point and try again

Scott

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