On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Stephen Samuel wrote:
> The main purpose of the BS parameters was to take care of I/O devices for
> which the write size made a difference. tape drives with variable block
> sizes or streaming come to mind. Depending on the tape drive, you could
> sometimes end up with very di
James Miller wrote:
I've got a small disk whose contents I'd like to save as an image file, in
case I ever want to write it back to the disk it came from. This is a 4MB
flash disk. From what I gather in my Linux reading, I should do something
like the following: hook this tiny IDE disk up as, say
At 10:53 PM 6/8/2003 -0500, James Miller wrote:
I've got a small disk whose contents I'd like to save as an image file, in
case I ever want to write it back to the disk it came from. This is a 4MB
flash disk. From what I gather in my Linux reading, I should do something
like the following: hook t
I've got a small disk whose contents I'd like to save as an image file, in
case I ever want to write it back to the disk it came from. This is a 4MB
flash disk. From what I gather in my Linux reading, I should do something
like the following: hook this tiny IDE disk up as, say /dev/hdb and the do
