[ltp] Re: Cloning a hard disk?

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Jaime Iniesta wrote:

> It looks like my test didn't work. After 11 hours I aborted the process:
>
> root@0[dev]# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/uba bs=10M
> 1895+0 records in
> 1895+0 records out
> 19870515200 bytes transferred in 40062.003484 seconds (495994 bytes/sec)
>
> Jaime

Jaime - that looks like not even 0.5MB/s, so you've got a USB1 device
there, or your system's not recognising a USB2 device correctly.  At
that rate an 60GB disk might take... two days?  As per my previous
mail, if you really have USB1, it's really not a good route - get a
drive caddy?

Honey