RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a quotation problem... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anees Mannesseri Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with dd to raw disks ... dd if/dev/zero of=.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4 count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a quotation problem... What about reading the user's guide instead? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806 Corinna -Original Message- dd if/dev/zero of=.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4 count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
Hi, Thanx for the references. I tried the forward slash, but that didnt help. After going thru the user's guide, i tried /dev/sde instead of //./PHYSICALDRIVE4 and it worked. From what i could undertand, the problem is with opening the file for write. Any clue on how to get thru this ? Thanx Anees On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a quotation problem... What about reading the user's guide instead? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806 Corinna -Original Message- dd if/dev/zero of=.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4 count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument ... -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Larry At 09:47 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote: On Mar 1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote: Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a quotation problem... What about reading the user's guide instead? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806 Corinna -Original Message- dd if/dev/zero of=.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4 count=5 seek =3 fails with the error dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to read the FAQ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. Ken -Original Message- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to read the FAQ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
Oh well, I thought I'd made my intent impossible to mistake. irony offsense=not_intended Entire discussion reformatted with top-quoting for your convenience (though I refrained from leaving the list-trailers in). /irony On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Ken Thompson wrote: What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. Ken -Original Message- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to read the FAQ. On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Sent: 01 March 2004 16:45 From: Christopher Faylor On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? cgf But then how would anyone know to read the FAQ, or indeed how to find it? It's much easier just to ask on this list, no-one minds after all... Bill -- This e-mail transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please reply to the sender as soon as possible and delete the message. Please note that we are able to, and reserve the right to, monitor e-mail communications passing through our network. The views expressed in this email are not that of the company unless specified within the message. The inclusion of this footnote indicates that the mail message and any attachments have been checked for the presence of known viruses. If you have any comments regarding our policy please direct them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Ah, but you'd have to read the documentation for that... Igor P.S. What's cygwim.com, and what relevance does it have to this discussion? ;-) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ken Thompson wrote: What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all. Ken -Original Message- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to read the FAQ. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would people know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out somewhere in black and white? You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to read the FAQ. Absolutely agree, as long as there is a howto on reading both the FAQ and the User's Guide. Maybe the user's guide could also mention the howto. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
