dd to floppies broken?

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:34:21PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
>   # dd bs=8192 of=/dev/fd0 if=memtest86-2.9/precomp.bin
>   10+1 records in
>   10+1 records out
>   84480 bytes transferred in 3.775199 secs (22378 bytes/sec)

fd0 is block buffered.  Try:

dd bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0c if=memtest86-2.9/precomp.bin

I forget why, but 18k maximizes performance on (some?) floppies.

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