From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 6:14:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (rdu25-28-177.nc.rr.com [24.25.28.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15F4837BC73 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 06:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@firehouse.net) Received: (qmail 45899 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jun 2000 13:14:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:14:44 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: tienhuat lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskette duplication--exactly Message-ID: <20000607091444.B36799@ecto.greenpeas.org> References: <20000607060447.9953.qmail@web702.mail.yahoo.com> <20000607021529.A28631@namodn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000607021529.A28631@namodn.com>; from robert@namodn.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:15:29AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Rob spewed forth the following bitstream: > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/me/floppy.img A bit faster: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/me/floppy.img bs=18k > Remove master floppy from drive and place blank in drive > > dd if=/home/me/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 And: dd if=/home/me/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k 18k is one "track" so you end up reading 80 bufferable tracks, not 1.4MB, one byte at a time. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message