Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

To make things easier and a little quicker , you could have
done this:

 dd if=/dev/sda/ of =test.iso bs=1MB  count=540

This will tell Linux to try and read 1MB at a time rather
then 512 blocks, fewer  ,larger I/O's make things go a lot
quicker and the end result is the same data in the iso.

Best Regards,

Mike Wolak

--- "Gorny, Daniel (Daniel)** CTR **"
<dgorny@...> wrote:

> Gordon,
>  
> It worked after a short fight caused by my lack of
> knowledge in linux
> matter.
>  
> Command I used was "dd if=/dev/sda/ of =test.iso bs=512
> count=1105000"
>  
> I had to add "count" parameter because my disk size was
> bigger than it
> was formated at.
> I nicely cut my iso down to 540Mb.
>  
> Thanks again
> Daniel
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
> Of Gordon JC
> Pearce
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:10 AM
> To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] SCSI copy???
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 07:30 +0000, reverbrick wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I need to make CD's out of AKAI's HD, but my only
> computer having SCSI
> 
> > ports is an old pc being only able to run linux.
> > There are a lot of posts on the net on how to do that
> using toast
> under 
> > mac but not so much for linux users.
> > Have anyone tried a command called "dd" to dump a SCSI
> disk 
> > into "burnable" image?
> > Will it work?
> > What should be a parameters?
> 
> It depends on how the Akai sees the disk. If it has the
> same format on
> a CD as on the hard disk, DD will work just fine.
> 
> I've dd'ed the contents off an Emax II disk and burned
> them to CD with
> cdrecord, and it worked perfectly well. You'll probably
> have to name
> the image file <something>.iso so it gets written as an
> ISO file, even
> though it's not actually in ISO9660 format.
> 
> Probably something like "dd if=/dev/sda of=test.iso
> bs=512" should work.
> If not, try bs=1024 or bs=256 but I'm *almost* sure that
> the Akai uses
> 512-byte blocks on disk.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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