From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 14:20:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA09943 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA09937 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA11109 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:20:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA16544; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:14:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970912231411.VV24990@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 23:14:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from K.J.Koster on Sep 12, 1997 11:22:34 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As K.J.Koster wrote: > Just a few days ago I made a floppy image from a freshly formatted MS-DOS > floppy ("dd if/dev/fd0.1440 of=msdos.flop") Oh well. Not that it must be related to your particular problem, but: YOU SHOULD NEVER USE BUFFERED DEVICES UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO MOUNT(2) A FILESYSTEM OVER IT. Please, people, hammer this sentence into your head. I'm in great sorry that Linux doesn't offer you raw devices, but for all the Unix systems that offer it, NEVER use buffered devices for raw floppy access. I'm sick of repeating the reasons for why not to do this, please re-read the mailing list archives. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)