Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful >>>information. Why would any

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
t; Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after > all. > > Ken > > > -Original Message- > > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks > > > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Hughes, Bill
> Sent: 01 March 2004 16:45 From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It s

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
complain instead of doing something. Quit > complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. > > Ken > > > -Original Message- > > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks > > > > You know, the

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Ken Thompson
What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. Ken > -Original Message- > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks > > > On Mon, Mar

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the docum

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Larry Hall
Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Larry At 09:47 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote: >On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: >> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation >> problem"... >

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Anees Mannesseri
Hi, Thanx for the references. I tried the forward slash, but that didnt help. After going thru the user's guide, i tried /dev/sde instead of //./PHYSICALDRIVE4 and it worked. From what i could undertand, the problem is with opening the file for write. Any clue on how to get thru this ? Thanx Anee

Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: > Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation > problem"... What about reading the user's guide instead? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806 Corinna > > -Original Message- > > dd if/dev/

RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Morche Matthias
Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Anees Mannesseri > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Problem with dd to raw disks

2004-03-01 Thread Anees Mannesseri
Hi, I am facing problems issuing dd to raw disks from windows 2k3 server thru cygwin. dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument But it works the other way, I mean if i give ".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" a