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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

Reason still provode sd card utility as linux dd command can do the same ?

I a bit curious to ask around why we have multiple tools but they are actually doing the similar task? such as the SD card ulility and the dd command both also able to update the SD card partitions. any advantage of using only linux one?

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    10 years ago

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    what is the command with the dd that end with bs for? some page i saw is 64k some is 1M.... any value will do?

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    Hi, if you want to have a faster writing speed of course 1M would be better... but usually thing such as boot loader or preloader just with a size in term of hundred kilobyte... so.. using a 1M size a bit funny.. :D