Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mtndew!friedl From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: cpio Keywords: cpio stuff Message-ID: <586@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US> Date: 6 Dec 90 15:11:16 GMT References: <141@genco.bungi.com> Organization: VSI*FAX Tech Ctr, Tustin, CA Lines: 23 In article <141@genco.bungi.com>, rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes about cpio to multiple floppies, and gives the example for the 386: > cpio -ocvmB >/dev/rdsk/f0 Then mentions: > For 3B2, the raw floppy device is '/dev/rdiskette' Note that on the 3B2, do NOT use the -B argument when dealing with the raw device. A floppy has 1422 blocks, and this is not an integral number of 10-block chunks, and cpio on the 3B2 seems to require this. If you're using Sys V Rel 3 and you want more buffering, use -C 9216 (9 kbytes). Steve -- Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / 3B2-kind-of-guy / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy +1 714 544 6561 / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl "If it doesn't core dump, ship it" - Gary W. Keefe, on product development