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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:01:32 -0500
From:      celacunza@netscape.net
To:        Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Probem with dd (and cat) from device
Message-ID:  <2AACD2A4.45CC71BE.02E614FA@netscape.net>

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a block size of less than 2048 bytes gives me the same problem,
but cat works fine, and so does dd with a bs of 2kB or more.

looks like a bug, if you ask me.

-- christian.


     hp0# dd if=/dev/acd1c | od
     dd: /dev/acd1c: Bad address
     0+0 records in
     0+0 records out
     0 bytes transferred in 0.039836 secs (0 bytes/sec)
     hp0# 
     hp0# 
     hp0# dd if=/dev/acd1c bs=2k | od | head -1
     0000000  000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
     hp0# 
     hp0# cat /dev/acd1c | od | head -1
     0000000  000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
     hp0# 
     hp0# 


> What is wrong here?
> 
> $ dd if=/dev/acd0c | od
> dd: /dev/acd0c: Bad address
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.027961 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> Yet I can mount the device.  
> 
> thanks
> --
>     Chris Fedde




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