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Subject:	RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:07:54 +0100
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Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Anees Mannesseri
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Problem with dd to raw disks
> 
...
> dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000
> seek =3 fails with the error 
> 
> dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
...

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