Re: dd bug

[Paul Eggert]

Buciuman Adrian <address@hidden> writes:

> I have dozens of faulty diskettes , so I can snail- mail some to you.

Thanks, but I'd rather figure it out directly.  Possibly my floppy
drive reader will behave differently with those diskettes.

> But I am now almost sure something is wrong in GNU dd , because I ' ve tried
> the dd that comes with FreeBSD .
> It worked well . The hardware was the same .

It could be a GNU dd bug; or it could be a kernel or driver bug.
To help decide this, can you please run the following shell command,
and then email the contents of the file 'trace' to
<address@hidden>?  Thanks.

strace -o trace dd if=/dev/fd0 of=test bs=720k conv=sync,noerror