On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:17:21 -0600 
 "Phil Knaack" <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu> wrote:

 > 	There appeared to be absolutely no way to interrupt the dd process
 > to make this horrible nightmare come to a stop, until it had completed the
 > entire floppy's worth of data.

So, I just tried to reproduce this... I dd'd a floppy image onto a 3.5''
write protected floppy... I got exactly one "hard error" message, and
dd promptly exited with an error condition.  So, I have two questions:

	- What exact command did you type?

	- What version of NetBSD are you running?

(I'm running bleeding-edge 1.2B.)

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