Re: 1.3.6[0-7] floppy driver broken

Michael Stiller (michael@toyland.ping.de)
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 19:11:07 +0100


> Now, you might run "strace" on dd to see if the system call really _is_
> returning an error value, or if it just dd that is confused. I suspect it's dd.
>
> Linus

Hi Linus, hi all,

After running strace i suspect, that dd is broken.
Some older fd utils (like fdformat) have problems too.
Was there a change in the floppy driver some versions ago?

-Michael

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