On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Max Zaitsev wrote: > I couldn't crash my drive with the byte sequence given. However, it crashes if > I try to transfer 1GB of zeroes: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda8 bs=16M count=1G > > kills the device with a 100% probability. With regard to Windows -- I've > managed to copy 30-40 GB of media files to the drive and did not have a > single crash...
FYI, that command means to send one billion blocks where each block is 16 MB. Altogether that makes for a 16 exabyte transfer -- I could understand that crashing your drive. :-) Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
