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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:05:18 +0900 (JST)
From:      Naoki Hamada <nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   [2.2-GAMMA] partial write to raw mode disk
Message-ID:  <199703130505.OAA26681@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>

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Writing an incomplete data to a raw mode disk device seems to fail. Is
this an intended behavior? On the other hand, writing the same data to
the corresponding block device always succeeds.

% dd if=/dev/zero of=a bs=1 count=513
513+0 records in
513+0 records out
513 bytes transferred in 0.044414 secs (11550 bytes/sec)
% dd if=a of=/dev/fd0
1+1 records in
1+1 records out
513 bytes transferred in 1.183101 secs (434 bytes/sec)
% dd if=a of=/dev/rfd0
dd: /dev/rfd0: Invalid argument
1+1 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 1.279461 secs (400 bytes/sec)
% dd if=/dev/zero of=b bs=1 count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.045171 secs (11335 bytes/sec)
% dd if=b of=/dev/rfd0
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 1.140878 secs (449 bytes/sec)

- nao



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