Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Problem with dd to raw disks Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:07:54 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Morche Matthias" To: "Cygwin Mailinglist \(E-Mail\)" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Mar 2004 13:07:54.0856 (UTC) FILETIME=[35BD8E80:01C3FF8E] X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i21D8FPg017210 Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation problem"... > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Anees Mannesseri > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:29 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.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 ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/