From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de  Fri Jul 30 01:01:39 2004
Subject: [MiNT] dd - access to block device
From: Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>
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Hi,

sorry for such dumb question:

do we have the possibility of working with raw block devices using 'dd',
similarly to what one would do under linux with 

dd if=file of=/dev/hda5

i.e. to store a file to sectors on a partition?

I tried of=/u/g and also of=g: but 'dd' didn't like it.

Petr