Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 07:35 -0700, Mike Wolak wrote:
> 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.
> 

If you're copying from a SCSI disk, yes.  Be careful doing that if
you're copying from a SCSI CDROM - some of them have got "interesting"
ideas of block sizes.

Gordon