[ltp] cloning 14G drives

[Chris Schumann]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Mark Kennedy wrote:
> Chris Schumann wrote:
> > Linux should be able to copy any drive up to 137GB, the limit of LBA
> > addressing, just using dd.
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm this?

> that's what i thought originally.  but empirically, it isn't so.  
> i tried 'dd' and a small perl program (based on sysread).  both 
> stopped at approx. the same barrier: 7,560M.

It appears that dd is using CHS/BIOS of some sort rather than LBA
addressing. I can't think of another way to do this right now, except
maybe backup software that will backup whole partitions. Of course, you'd
need a third drive temporarily to hold the backup file.

Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>

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