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From: franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HP4020i (CD-R) Usage question (dd input/output error?)
Date: 7 Jul 96 14:25:07 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde) wrote:

>> 	# rtprio 5 team  -v 1m 5 < IMAGE  | dd of=/dev/rworm0 obs=20k
>> 	1093 kilobytes, 0 seconds
>> 	   [ The green light on the 4020i blinks for a few seconds ]
>> 	   [ The red (write) light blinks for a few seconds ]
>> 	1093 kbytes written [Carriage Return]
>> 	dd: /dev/rworm0: Input/output error
>> 	2186+1 records in
>> 	54+0 records out
>> 	1105920 bytes transferred in 4 secs (276480 bytes/sec)

>You should also quote the SCSI error message from the console (or from
>/var/log/messages) here.  This one will lead further.

No errors on the console/syslog.
I also noticed (now) that if I dummy write a larger image (257MB) I
do *not* get the error from 'dd'.
Could it have to do with the rediculous small file (1.1MB) I try to
write?

Thanks,

-Frank
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