In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9905050015080.3295-100000@rfhs8036.fh-regensburg.de> Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
>
>I did the following today to make a backup of wd0 to sd0 on a Dell
>PIII-500 today:
>
># dd if=/dev/rwd0d bs=1m | gyip -v9 >rwd0d
>
>It ran for ~1 hour, than gave me:

This is a problem with all disk devices right now. They don't seem to
return end of file when they reach the end of the disk. A pr is appropriate.

christos