Jim Meyering wrote:
It sounds like a problem with an underlying driver.
I'm doubt it's worth trying to work around in dd. Besides,
what can dd do? If you request a block size of 32, it can't
very well opt to use 512 because using 32 might make hang a
buggy driver.
Yeah I agree, doesn't seem worth the effort and second guessing what
really to do would be tough. Like I said, just curious if you had some
magical way to do it.
Did you try specifying just the *output* block size?
E.g., rather than using bs=32 (which sets both input and output
block sizes), specify only obs=32.
No not before, I did see suggestions to trying ibs and obs but got side
tracked in getting the perl script and C program working. I just tried it:
dd if=dev/nst0 obs=32
and it wrote out the full 512 bytes to stdout. I tried:
dd if=dev/nst0 of=e.e obs=32
just in case it had something to do with stdout and it wrote the full
512 bytes to e.e too.
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