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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:48:13 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dd and gzip'd files
Message-ID:  <19991120204813.A44037@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 02:26:41AM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911192341290.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <38364D31.F1AD476E@cvzoom.net>

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In the last episode (Nov 20), Donn Miller said:
> Thanks.  Here is what I tried:
> 
> root@lc186 floppies# dd obs=16k conv=osync if=color.gz
> of=/dev/rfd0
> 2453+1 records in
> 77+0 records out
> 1261568 bytes transferred in 50.994527 secs (24739 bytes/sec)
> 
> It appears to have worked.  I guess the output block size of 16k
> is key for floppies, then.  The conv=osync does the padding.

The block size for floppies is 512 bytes (which happens to be dd's
default blocksize), btw.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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