From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 18:06:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22874 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22820 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17211; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:06:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017192; Sun Sep 27 18:06:24 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08430; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:06:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809280106.SAA08430@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Raw Devices, Please Explain... To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Sep 27, 98 08:00:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? You must have missed the whole "we can live with just block devices, like that bastion of standards conformance, Linux" thread. It appear you are about to trigger a redux... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message