Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 01:06:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raw Devices, Please Explain... Message-ID: <199809280106.SAA08430@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980927200001.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from "Simon Shapiro" at Sep 27, 98 08:00:01 pm
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> $ 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
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