dd to floppies broken?

[Brian Reichert]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:42:57PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> You can only write full blocks to raw devices.  The first file is
> 84480/512 = 165 disk blocks on the dot.  The second file is 164.8828125
> blocks, and that last fragment is why the dd is failing.  Try adding
> conv=osync to your dd line to tell it to pad the last block out.

This does do it (thanks!), but I had to remove the 'bs=8192' clause
for it to work.  Hence:

  dd of=/dev/fd0 if=memtest86-3.0/precomp.bin conv=osync

Does indeed work.  Thanks a bunch; I would have assumed that
block-padding would not have been an issue...

> 
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> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
> 

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