Hi,
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, zentara wrote:
> While we are on the subject, if you have 2 floppy drives,
> can dd copy from one device to the other, bypassing the file?
>
> i.e. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1
yes. this should work.
>
> Also what does the conv=sync do?
this will put null characters if the blocking factor you are using is not
full (100 characters instead of 512 for example). Sometimes if you do not
specify this you get an i/o error while writing...
-alexm
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