Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system

2002-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 23:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyways I then tried to test write speed with dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem and the system hanged. I forget the exact symbols for eide_drive but it was an unmounted slice - yea I know if it worked it would have killed the

Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system

2002-05-04 Thread atk2
Thank you for the note. Hum -- didn't realize that - oh well - things change too fast. Well thanks... alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system

2002-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 00:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the note. Hum -- didn't realize that - oh well - things change too fast. Well thanks... Reading /dev/mem _any_ time would have been unadvisable. You just got lucky before. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer