On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:22 pm, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Q1: Is anyone aware of harm done by operating a
> hard disk on the wrong definition? Does this strain
> the device in any weird and unnatural way? It is a
> Maxtor, cost me less than $30 and was not previously
> used.
No harm will be done. Somewhere along the way, usually in the drive itself,
the correct translation of cylinder, head and sector gets made. No worries.
> I tried "dd" to copy my old SCSI volume to the new
> IDE and it seemed to work, but the resulting partition
> came up broken. Linux didn't like it, let alone
> windows. (I did not defrag it first, but it was
> a very new Windows installation and I'm sure
> it was all well within the first gig.)
Interesting. My statement about the system not caring that the drive changed
was obviously not true. Sorry.
> Q2: When you do an unlimited "dd", will it always
> end with an error message when it hits the end of
> the source drive?
No. In my experience the source drive did not cause an error message at the
end.
> Q3: Can anyone recommend to me a live CD that
> I can download, that will bring up a nice and
> basic set of tools? I don't need no stinkin GUI.
> I definitely need a full GRUB kit and parted.
> I'd like full support for FAT32 and NTFS.
I don't specifically know of one but google should be your friend in that kind
of search.
> Back to Linux, I did an archive copy with -i
> to prompt me on replacements, and said "no" to
> COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS which were
> already present from the formatting.
>
> Q4: Does Windows care where the above three files
> reside on the disk? I started my first copy with
> the -f option and then decided to re-do it so that
> those files would be placed wherever format puts
> them.
Yes and no. COMMAND.COM can reside anywhere in the root directory but there
are entries in the filesystem structure, outside of normal directory entries,
that will point to the starting blocks of one or both of the other two... I
think... You did it the safe way.
> The "new" box is a former commercial web server,
> just a Pentium 166. It hosted 17 hotel-shopping
> domains for four years on FreeBSD, earning up to
> $2.5M in good years, before being put on the junk
> pile. Then it hosted my Debian experiments a few
> months ago. I hope it doesn't mind running Windows
> for the first time ... :-(
Poor thing!
Alan
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