[parisc-linux] Problems with raw interface.

Grant Grundler grundler@parisc-linux.org
Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:46:05 -0600


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:07:41PM +0530, SUDARSANAN,RANJITH (HP-India,ex2) wrote:
> >>>>What does "dd if=/dev/raw/raw2 of=/tmp/o_raw2 bs=512 count=8" result in?
> This command reads the first 4K bytes of the disk and writes it to file
> o_raw2. 

Ah yes, but is the data correct?
I'll assume not since your attempt with /dev/raw/raw1 also failed.

Basically something looks broken in parisc for raw devices.
I was clearly able to reproduce this failure.

grant