In the last episode (Nov 20), Donn Miller said:
> Thanks. Here is what I tried:
>
> root@lc186 floppies# dd obs=16k conv=osync if=color.gz
> of=/dev/rfd0
> 2453+1 records in
> 77+0 records out
> 1261568 bytes transferred in 50.994527 secs (24739 bytes/sec)
>
> It appears to have worked. I guess the output block size of 16k
> is key for floppies, then. The conv=osync does the padding.
The block size for floppies is 512 bytes (which happens to be dd's
default blocksize), btw.
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