DD is not working

[cj]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, cj wrote:
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>> the subject says it all.
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>> I need to make some CD images because im borrowing some cds.
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>> I used "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/debian/name.iso" and it gave me:
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>> 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
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>> I mounted the cd rom before running the DD command
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>> what do i do? i googled it with absolutely no results (or any results
>> pertaining to ubuntu 7.04)
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> Try one of these:
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> - sudo or su and then dd
>
> - umount the mount point and try again
>
> Scott
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>>     
Scott, it still gave me the same thing. tried both steps
--cj
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