Hey artie, sound like a hardware thing... but maybe not.

Show us what this command produces...

stty -e

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Also, let's look at ctrl-C for some command other than dd.
Start measuring your home folder...
du -s ~
After one or two seconds, cancel it with ctrl-C
Assuming it works (i.e., du bails out), then do
echo $?
If it doesn't work, then do your ctrl-option-C,
and echo that status so we can see the value:
echo $?
[the value should be 130 btw]


Last edited by Hal Itosis; 01/12/10 08:31 AM.