From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 20: 3:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r20.mail.aol.com (imo-r20.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9989037B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from celacunza@netscape.net by imo-r20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id p.2.1c4fbf (16233); Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:01:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from netscape.com (aimmail11.aim.aol.com [205.188.144.203]) by air-in02.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.8) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:01:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:01:32 -0500 From: celacunza@netscape.net To: Chris Fedde Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Probem with dd (and cat) from device Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2AACD2A4.45CC71BE.02E614FA@netscape.net> X-Mailer: Franklin Webmailer 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG a block size of less than 2048 bytes gives me the same problem, but cat works fine, and so does dd with a bs of 2kB or more. looks like a bug, if you ask me. -- christian. hp0# dd if=/dev/acd1c | od dd: /dev/acd1c: Bad address 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.039836 secs (0 bytes/sec) hp0# hp0# hp0# dd if=/dev/acd1c bs=2k | od | head -1 0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 hp0# hp0# cat /dev/acd1c | od | head -1 0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 hp0# hp0# > What is wrong here? > > $ dd if=/dev/acd0c | od > dd: /dev/acd0c: Bad address > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.027961 secs (0 bytes/sec) > > Yet I can mount the device. > > thanks > -- > Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message