From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: writing 96b image to floppy Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 18:08:37 GMT
In article <1992Jun28.065802.14240@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>cp works fine, but dd was a /lot/ faster with the old floppy driver that
>didn't do track buffering. With the current kernel there's not too much
>difference between cp and dd, so you can safely use cp now. (Another
>reason I use dd in the kernel Makefile is that some old version of GNU
>cp "optimized" the copying by not copying zeros (doing a lseek() over
>them instead), which works fine on regular files but breaks on special
>files like /dev/PS0. Newer cp's don't have this problem)
Speaking of the kernel Makefile, could you please change the outfile
for dd to /dev/fd0? With the auto-detecting floppies, that means
those of us with 5.25" drives in A: don't have to remember to change
that. (I have enough problems remembering to change the keyboard
definition. :)
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