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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 8mm and dd
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 02:17:11 GMT
- References: <715275893@anthrax.cs.duke.edu> <1992Aug31.192332.26751@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <p9qi2f0@sgi.sgi.com> <1992Sep1.135248.25555@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In <1992Sep1.135248.25555@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt) writes:
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- | |> In article <1992Aug31.192332.26751@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt) writes:
- | |> >
- | |> > I have noticed that if the input file has an odd number of bytes and
- | |> > you output to the variable block device, that the entire file will
- | |> > not be written; the last byte will be missing.
- | |>
- | |> By the way, this should not be happening. Do you have a simple test
- | |> case that can make it happen?
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- Is the 8mm attached to the builtin SCSI, or to the jag VME SCSI board?
-
- | The example is trivial. Pick a file with an odd number of bytes, gee,
- | coincidently my /etc/motd has 21 bytes and give it a spin-da-da.
- |
- | climate> dd if=/etc/motd of=/dev/nrv8mm
- | climate> mt -t /dev/nrv8mm rew
- | climate> dd if=/dev/nrv8mm of=newmotd
- | climate> diff /etc/motd newmotd
- | 2d1
- | < Welcome to climate.
- | climate>
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- Works fine for me on the integral SCSI (and yes, the byte count
- of my /etc/motd is in fact odd (57 bytes)).
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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