RE: [cobalt-users] hard drive 61 revisited

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:20 PM 05/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
> > >Copies everything from a to b (this will take a while)
> > >"if" is in-file and "of" is out-file
> >
> > just want to be sure there is not a misprint ... /hdc and your comment says
> > "b". Is it really /hdc and not /hdb  - just don't want to screw this up :)
> >

Low and behold it works! Thanks for this useful bit of info!

It took a full hour to do a 10gig drive in a RaQ3 with 3gig of data on it.

I assume this method copies the entire drive not just areas with Real Data 
in them so It will always take an hour for the 10 gig.

My drive was in the 'b' positions - slave on IDE1 as there is no IDE2 on a 
basic RaQ3.

Partition Magic and it's little brother, Drive Copy, take only about 20 
minutes to do this on a slow ATA66 connection.

Norton Ghost is definitely not trustworthy it seems to lose files from my 
RaQ4 not sure why! Never had a problem with PQ Magic except that it doesn't 
like the boot kernel (~40mb) partition on the RaQ >> the solution is to run 
with the /ipe switches.

Been looking at these:
http://www.logicube.com/store/echo.html

Has anyone used this with a RaQ?

- Bill



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