From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 15:57:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05659 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from updown.allaround.org (nomis.simon-shapiro.org [209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05563 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 2538 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Sep 1998 00:00:01 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:00:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Face: (&r=uR0&yvh>h^ZL4"-TH61PD}/|Y'~58Z# Gz&BK'&uLAf:2wLb~L7YcWfau{;N(#LR2)\i.l8'ZqVhv~$rNx$]Om6Sv36S'\~5m/U'"i/L)&t$R0&?,)tm0l5xZ!\hZU^yMyCdt!KTcQ376cCkQ^Q_n.GH;Dd-q+ O51^+.K-1Kq?WsP9;cw-Ki+b.iY-5@3!YB5{I$h;E][Xlg*sPO61^5=:5k)JdGet,M|$"lq!1!j_>? $0Yc? Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Raw Devices, Please Explain... Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG $ dd if=/dev/rda4s4d of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1 dd: /dev/rda4s4d: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.078265 secs (0 bytes/sec) root@nomiS on ttyp6 at Sun Sep 27 in /usr/local/src/st 1.[158] $ dd if=/dev/rda4s4d of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.000723 secs (708156 bytes/sec) Cannot read one byte form a CHARACTER device? Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 Simon Shapiro Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message