From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 10 5:55:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A137C37B407; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 05:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joerg@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7ACnWi99159; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 05:49:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 05:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Message-Id: <200108101249.f7ACnWi99159@freefall.freebsd.org> To: mwm@mired.org, joerg@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/20725: Raw floppy writes fail for partial bytes. Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: Raw floppy writes fail for partial bytes. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 10 14:47:07 MEST 2001 State-Changed-Why: This is normal and expected behaviour for a `raw' device: all IO requests need to be multiples of the hardware block size (typically 512 bytes, but can be larger iff the medium block size is larger, like for non-standard floppies, MO media, or CD-ROMs). Use a tool like tar or cpio when copying arbitrary stuff to raw devices. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20725 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message