Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy light doesnt come on, kill -9 fails to kill it). This occurred when comparing write times for various bs arguments to dd. How-To-Repeat: time dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=4096 this will occasionally die without warning.
As tihor@bsd.org wrote: > Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy > light doesnt come on, kill -9 fails to kill it). This occurred when > comparing write times for various bs arguments to dd. Please, log into another terminal on that machine, and see on which event the process is waiting (_before_ trying to kill it). You can see this in the WCHAN field of a ps -alx listing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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