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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:22, Chris Pockele wrote:
> > > > nomad# dd if=3D/dev/fd0a /mnt
> > > > dd: unknown operand /mnt
> > >
> > > Incorrect use of dd.
>
> Indeed, this was just a mistake that got copy-pasted along :).
>
> > Notice all Chris's commands address a ufs partition, and the errors c=
ome
> > from fd0c -- again a ufs concept. The disk is not set up with ufs but
> > FAT12 so these do not exist.
>
> Using fd0a instead of fd0 works fine on another machine.
> And doesn't fd0c mean "the whole disk" anyway?
>

I stand corrected, looking at output from:
# ls -l /dev/fd0*
I see that fd0 and fd0a to fd0h all have same major/minor device numbers.

I still have some difficulty believing there is a hardware fault; but cou=
ld
accept the idea of some hardware peculiarity that FreeBSD does not
allow for. To my mind the messages under linux seem to support the=20
possibility; but obviously I'm now well outside my region of competance.

Malcolm