Re: [smurf@smurf.noris.de: Re: 1.3.6[0-7] floppy driver broken]
Jim Meyering (meyering@asic.sc.ti.com)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:26:53 -0600
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: 1.3.6[0-7] floppy driver broken
References: <m0tqNJ5-000RAyC@omega-3.null.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:51:51 +0100
[...]
That being said, dd's behavior is _not_ reasonable; short reads or writes
do happen. They usually don't happen with block devices, but they can, for
instance if you write your floppy with bs=12345.
With the current fileutils sources, dd.c no longer has this problem.