DD is not working

[cj]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 13:18:57 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
>>     
>
> This usually happens if the CD is damaged. 
>
> Check for risks, and the label for scratches. 
>
> Make sure you can access every byte of data using other ways (try 
> md5sum /dev/cdrom with it unmounted, play audio tracks, copy files to the 
> HDs, etc).
>
>
>   
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.0023667 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>>     
>
> It seems nothing at all was copied. Can you use this CD at all?
>
>
>   
>> I mounted the cd rom before running the DD command
>>     
>
> Don't do this.
>
> regards
> FF
>   
I got dd to work, just had to use a different CD thats all

--cj