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Date:	Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:35:40 -0500
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From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
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Pah!  The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful 
information.  Why would anyone want to read that? ;-)

Larry


At 09:47 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
>On Mar  1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote:
>> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"...
>
>What about reading the user's guide instead?
>
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806
>
>Corinna
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > dd if/dev/zero of="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=50000
>> > seek =3 fails with the error 
>> > 
>> > dd: opening `\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
>> ...
>> 


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