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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:27:53 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Liakakis Kostas <kostas@skiathos.physics.auth.gr>
To: Klaus Dittrich <kladit@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11-pre6 
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Almost a me too:

On a Compaq Armada 1750 with 2.4.3-20mdk (as installed from Mandrake 8.0):

dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
reports back: dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument

On the same laptop with 2.4.11-pre5 the same command barfs with:
dd: /dev/fd0: Permission denied

On a P180 w/ 2.4.10-pre13: dd: /dev/fd0: Permission denied

In the first kernel the floppy driver is compiled as a module.
Without the seek=1 (or whatever number there) it works in all cases.

I thought it was something that had to do with my drives but seeing
your report makes me wonder. Perhaps sombody more knowledgeable can
comment...

-K.


On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Klaus Dittrich wrote:

> 
> dd and mkfs works with 2.4.3 but not with 2.4.11.x or 2.4.10.x
>  
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k   or   mkfs /dev/sdb3 
> both fail with "File size limit exceeded"
> 
> Booting the same system with 2.4.3 or 2.2.19 anything
> works as expected.
> 
> So is the problem with the kernel (as I assume) or do I miss something ?
> 
> Can anyone else please verify this ? 
> 
> (One really needs two disks, dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null does not show
> the problem)
> 
> -- 
> Best regards
> Klaus Dittrich
> 
> e-mail: kladit@t-online.de
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