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Description of problem:
The raw man page says:
 The Linux dd (1) command does not  currently  align  its  buffers 
correctly, and so cannot be used on raw devices.

Yet the info on dd section gives the following example:
     disk=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
     tape=/dev/rmt/0
                                                                     
          
     # Copy all but the label from disk to tape.
     (dd bs=4k skip=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$disk >$tape
                                                                     
          
     # Copy from tape back to disk, but leave the disk label alone.
     (dd bs=4k seek=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$tape >$disk
     disk=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
     tape=/dev/rmt/0
                                                                     
          
     # Copy all but the label from disk to tape.
     (dd bs=4k skip=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$disk >$tape
                                                                     
          
     # Copy from tape back to disk, but leave the disk label alone.
     (dd bs=4k seek=1 count=0 && dd bs=512k) <$tape >$disk

I see two problems here. First, dd seems to run just fine when talking
to raw devices, but the man page for raw says not to do this. Either
fix the dd program or update your documentation.
Second, the dd info page has an example from a System V type Unix (I'm
judging by the device path names. It is certainly not the goofy device
names used for raw devices i                                         
                                                                     
                                               n linux.) environment.
But this example is using both a raw disk and a raw tape drive! Is
this a good example for linux people to follow, knowing that dd does
not work with raw devices? I would redo these documents to reflect a
linux device file naming convention for a disk and a tape drive bound
to raw device names.
---jjh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-4.5.3-26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. info dd
2. man raw
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Additional info: