Starting with an attempt to dd a file to /dev/fd0 I was surprised to
find out that there is no such device or address.
/tmp$ dd if=net-1440.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address
/tmp$
By playing around I found out that the floppy module was not loaded.
/tmp$ /sbin/lsmod |grep floppy
/tmp$
Wasn't it supposed to get loaded automatically once dd was attempting
to access it? It does get loaded automatically with cat /dev/fd0:
/tmp$ cat /dev/fd0>bla
/tmp$ /sbin/lsmod |grep floppy
floppy 46428 0 (autoclean)
/tmp$
And now the dd command succeeds.
/tmp$ dd if=net-1440.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 1.228509 seconds (1200284 bytes/sec)
/tmp$
Is it a dd bug? Is it something else? Does it have something to do
with the way dd opens its output device? This is a personal desktop,
which is why I am assured nothing else beside the cat command got the
floppy module loaded.
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Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t
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