From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 7 8:33: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jochem.dyndns.org (cc40670-a.groni1.gr.nl.home.com [217.120.131.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3C437B405 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jochem@localhost) by jochem.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07GYGM00385 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:34:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jochem) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:34:15 +0100 From: Jochem Kossen To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: weird dd behaviour Message-ID: <20020107163415.GA359@jochem.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I was installing MINIX on an old laptop, and for that purpose i needed to create a set of floppies. Here's what happened. Take a look at the last dd sequence. It transfers 0 bytes. It comes with the weird /dev/fd0: invalid argument message. The disk inside the drive is fine... (lisa)/home/jochem/downloads/minix# dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k count=1 skip=0 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 49.090062 secs (30038 bytes/sec) (lisa)/home/jochem/downloads/minix# dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k count=1 skip=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 49.288477 secs (29917 bytes/sec) (lisa)/home/jochem/downloads/minix# dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k count=1 skip=2 dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument 0+1 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 37.641383 secs (0 bytes/sec) (lisa)/home/jochem/downloads/minix# uname -a: FreeBSD lisa.jochem.dyndns.org 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Jan 6 14:21:22 CET 2002 root@lisa.jochem.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISA i386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message