Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:34:15 +0100 From: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: weird dd behaviour Message-ID: <20020107163415.GA359@jochem.dyndns.org>
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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
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