[ltp] cloning 14G drives

[Rob Mayoff]

| > 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.

This indicates that the disk driver has the wrong geometry.  I'm once
again going to go out on a limb and suggest that you put
"hda=1826,240,63" in the linux boot command.  That should allow programs
reading /dev/hda to read the whole drive.

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