> > i only know DOS version of rawrite.
> >
>
> How about "The DOS rawrite.exe that NetBSD ships in the utilities directory",
> does that make more sense?
ok
> The point being that there are several versions of rawrite.exe around, and
> some of them may have issues.  e.g. they traded speed for reliability on
> some hardware.  If you have a Windows machine the NetBSD provided rawrite32
> utility seems to be quite reliable, fast, and provides an MD5 checksum for
> comparison.

i used rawrite from netbsd, slackware CD, redhat, debian (many versions)
and had no problems ever