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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:10:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com>
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Subject: Re: dd
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Doug Jolley wrote:

> I am trying to use dd to create a file which is an image of a floppy.
> The response to the command:
> 
>      dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./image bs=18k'

Use /dev/rfd0, the raw device.

> is:
>      Jul 29 09:55:37 bsdserver /kernel: pid 3110 (dd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
>      Segmentation fault - core dumped

Odd that dd would crash with sig11 ...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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