[ltp] cloning 14G drives

[Mark Kennedy]

Mark Kennedy wrote:
> 
> 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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sigh - "46 minutes", not "46 Megabytes". /mark
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