Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:28:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> Subject: Re: IDE DVD playback on 5.1-CURRENT Message-ID: <20030829182855.GC14251@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3F4F8916.8A3EB699@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0308270719400.10236-100000@thorn.ashke.com> <3F4DBD62.C8675452@mindspring.com> <20030828165031.GA91019@dragon.nuxi.com> <3F4F8916.8A3EB699@mindspring.com>
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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.
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