On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acam...@verlet.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM, James Hozier <guitars...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sd1c & >> dd: /dev/random: Input/output error >> 0+0 records in >> 0+0 records out >> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (0 bytes/sec) >> # >> >> But /dev/urandom (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd1c &) works fine. Is /dev/random not >> supposed to be used for some reason or something? >> >> > > man(4): > > B B /dev/random B B This device is reserved for future support of hardware > B B B B B B B B B B random generators. >
Duh, meant random(4)...
