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Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> On 30 Apr 99, at 21:44, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> > Dan Langille wrote:
> > >
> > > I can create boot floppies under DOS, no problem.
> > >           C:\TEMP>fdimage kern.flp a:
> > >
> > >           C:\TEMP>fdimage mfsroot.flp a:
> > >
> > > But when it comes to freebsd, I lose big time.
> > >
> > >           # cd 3.1-19990429-STABLE
> > >           # dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy
> > >           2880+0 records in
> > >           2880+0 records out
> > >           1474560 bytes transferred in 7.475212 secs (197260 bytes/sec)
> >
> > You got me curious and I tried this on a new 3.1-Release. I then tried to
> > use the floppy to boot a different system and they didn't work. One thing
> > I noticed is the transfer rate. On your system it is about 3x of what I
> > thought the 3.5" floppy could do. What I had was 0.58 sec and 2.56MB/sec.
> > Fantasy land!
> 
> Excellent!  Well, ummm, you know what I mean.  Given that both you and I
> failed, well, I'm hesitant to ask it, but is dd broken?

Nope! I used dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfdo and it required 48 sec and
transfered data at 30KB/sec. I could then boot from that floppy. The
example in the cdrom /floppies suggest /dev/rfdo or /dev/floppy and in
my case the /dev/rfd0 booted.

Kent
> 
> You tried from 3.1-release.  I tried from the latest 3.1-19990429-STABLE.
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