[ltp] Re: Backing up the Predesktop Area?

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:01:00PM +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> The HPA begins right after the last sector available, if the Protection i=
s=20
> enabled in the BIOS.

My BIOS (Thinkpad T23) does not have an option to disable the HPA, so I
have to append hda=3Dstroke to the kernel command line in lilo.conf to
access it.

> So you have to use '/dev/hda' as 'if' and the 'skip' option.

Can you ask dd to seek to a given position in the input file rather than
reading and discarding ~40 gigs of data that is done if you specify
'skip'?  AFAIU 'seek' only works on the output file.

Marius Gedminas
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