From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 21 11:39:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7E616A4C0 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442A043FDD for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (bicknell@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7LIdi8i087375 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:39:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7LIdiIA087374 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:39:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:39:44 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030821183944.GA87316@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20030821183421.GN85538@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030821183421.GN85538@numachi.com> Organization: United Federation of Planets X-PGP-Key: http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Subject: Re: dd to floppies broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:39:50 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message written on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:34:21PM -0400, Brian Reiche= rt wrote: > # dd bs=3D8192 of=3D/dev/fd0 if=3Dmemtest86-2.9/precomp.bin > 10+1 records in > 10+1 records out > 84480 bytes transferred in 3.775199 secs (22378 bytes/sec) fd0 is block buffered. Try: dd bs=3D18k of=3D/dev/rfd0c if=3Dmemtest86-2.9/precomp.bin I forget why, but 18k maximizes performance on (some?) floppies. --=20 Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/RRHwNh6mMG5yMTYRAomjAJ9psM/yWu0HBpgirEeFOlgjo5dGdgCeNvoO ssRCQq/LdRJTiITNL/4A9/I= =Ww3X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--