On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:10:46AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:29:22AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 1) dd if=/dev/acd0 count=1 of=/dev/null > > > 2) dd if=/dev/acd0c count=1 of=/dev/null > > > 3) dd if=/dev/acd0a count=1 of=/dev/null > > ^^^^ > > bs=2k > > Yes, sorry; I forgot that FreeBSD's dd does not stat its endpoints > to see if they are devices, and gets the st_blksize and insists > that it be used (at least internally) for S_IFBLK and S_IFCHR > values of st_mode. > > Perhaps it should be unbroken by someone with a commit bit and/or > the ability to have their send-pr's not rejected as relay SPAM.
I doubt it, this wasn't necessary with SCSI cdrom's until GEOM -- PHK thought it a feature to have to require the user to remember the "bs=2k", so I don't think anyone will ever be able to get this "fixed" in the tree. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
