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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:23:29 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> : pink-> dd if=mbox of=lala bs=50k count=1
> : 1+0 records in
> : 1+0 records out
> : 51200 bytes transferred in 0.000862 secs (59404804 bytes/sec)
> : pink-> /usr/bin/time scp lala keramida@igloo.linux.gr:
> : lala                                           100%   50KB  50.0KB/s   00:00
> :        21.34 real         0.05 user         0.01 sys

Try:

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m

And call me in the morning ...

-- 
Tom Rhodes