[ltp] cloning 14G drives

[Mark Kennedy]

Mark Kennedy wrote:
> 
> but that doesn't explain why specifying a 16383/16/63 geometry
> via the boot command line doesn't work unless the hd_driveid
> struct is only filled in from the drive probe, not from the
> command line version of the geometry?
> 
> also shouldn't a geometry of 27390/16/63 (specific to the 14G
> disk) work too (according to that code)?
> 
> i'll try your patch, though.
> 
> /mark
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the patch worked for me (which will satisfy my short-term
cloning needs).  it took 46M to copy the entire disk to /dev/null
with a 1M blocksize.

/mark
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