[ltp] cloning 14G drives

[Mark Kennedy]

Rob Mayoff wrote:
> 
> | sorry - belay that.  i did the same thing with a blocksize of 1k
> | against a 2nd 14G disk (/dev/hdc), not against /dev/null.  hmm....
> 
> The blocksize shouldn't matter.  Did you put with "hdc=1826,240,63" on
> the linux boot command line?  You need to specify BOTH drives'
> geometries if they are both 14 GB.
> 
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i'm old and tired (4 kids and a 4 hour daily commute to work) and lack the
eagle eye of a true kernel hacker but, yes, i entered a CHS geometry for both 
/dev/hda and /dev/hdc when i tried the two disk experiment.  

but the problem isn't due to the 2nd disk at all.  

last night on the train ride home i tried chris schuman's
"dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1M" experiment and again it only
copied half the disk.  i specify the correct CHS geometry in lilo.conf
and and can confirm from /var/log/message that is consumed correctly).

so there has to be a BIOS version problem or a kernel version problem.
i'm using a v2.2.10 kernel.  i don't know what BIOS versions are
available nor do i know how to name mine.  my thinkpad is 
a 770Z.

suggestions/thoughts/comments?

/mark
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