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Subject: Re: [9fans] scuzz doesn't like CD-RW?
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:44:06 +0100
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i sometimes put the contents for the cd in ramfs -p (if there's enough physical memory).
in any case, i find that
	sourceofimage | dd -obs 32k | dd -bs 32k >/mnt/cd/wd/blat
works well, with one dd to collect to a good block size, and another to double buffer
through the pipe.