From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 22:27:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3599816A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:27:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: from pobox.webstakez.com (pobox.webstakez.com [24.75.44.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF82F43D48 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:27:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ababurko@adelphia.net) Received: (qmail 30795 invoked by uid 1014); 18 Oct 2005 22:31:25 -0000 Received: from 24.52.224.246 by pobox.webstakez.com (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.83/761. spamassassin: 2.64. perlscan: 1.24. Clear:RC:0(24.52.224.246):SA:0(-1.8/4.0):. Processed in 5.890592 secs); 18 Oct 2005 22:31:25 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=4.0 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ababurko@adelphia.net via pobox.webstakez.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.24 (Clear:RC:0(24.52.224.246):SA:0(-1.8/4.0):. Processed in 5.890592 secs) Received: from 24-52-224-246.kntnny.adelphia.net (HELO ?192.168.1.69?) (bob@phreakout.net@24.52.224.246) by pobox.webstakez.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2005 22:31:19 -0000 Message-ID: <435576A8.7070203@adelphia.net> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:26:48 -0400 From: Bob Ababurko User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Deal , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200510181619968.SM01300@craiglaptop> In-Reply-To: <200510181619968.SM01300@craiglaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Replacing a failing HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:27:08 -0000 Craig Deal wrote: > > >>>Hope it's ok to continue this thread, but can you explain in more >>>detail how to use dd to copy a HD. I read "man dd" and was >> >>unable to >> >>>figure out how this is done. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Craig >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >>This is what I have done in the past. >> >>dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/da1 bs=8192b >> >>where da0 is the disk you want to copy and da1 is the new, >>blank disk. >>I should also mention that it is wise to do this in single >>user mode. I actually have read this somewhere and >>understand the point of it, but I must also say that I have >>done it both ways and they have both worked. >>YMMV I would have to say it is all dependant and what you >>have running. >> >>I have done this too many times to count and it is very easy. >> >>peace, >>Bob >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > I tried this and got the following error: > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 > LBA=8387712 > > Any ideas what the problem might be? Do the hard drives have to be > identical? One is a 30Gb and the other is a 60GB. > > Thanks, > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I would think that you can dd from a small drive to a large drive, but if the is possible _definitely_ not the other way around. Which size are source and dest. drive? -Bob