Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?

[Richard Daggett]

I have done this with 9GB SCSI drives with no issues,  for 9GB drives it takes about 30-45Min.

Richard

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Subject: Re: Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?


I am trying it right now.  I just think it is taking too long.  They are identical 40GB, 100 DMA hard drives.  I guess 40GB takes a while and I should have specified a start and end region since most of the drive is empty anyway.  I also hope the high DMA does not prove a problem.

Thanks for the quick response!  Anybody else have $0.02 of input?

Alan

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:15:36 -0700 "John (EBo) David" <ebo@leml.la.asu.edu> wrote:

alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I have a master IDE drive all setup how I want.  I want to copy the image of this drive, hda, to the slave drive, hdb.  In the end, I want both drives to be exactly the same, boot record and all.
> 
> If I boot from the CD drive with LNX-BBC (Linux bootable business card) can I just issue the command
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
> 
> and accomplish this?
> 
> Is there some other command that does this correctly or better?

that is how I copy old MSDOS floppys when I cannot find other
appropriate programs...

There may be an issue of the size of disk, and it may require them to be
the same, etc.  If it were me I would just try it and see if it works...

  EBo --
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