Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:54:21 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: xw <xiaowu23@yahoo.com> Cc: dan@slightlystrange.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy an image file on a ls120 disk to another? Message-ID: <20020320165421.A2375@goku.kasby> In-Reply-To: <20020319173312.ABC5.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com>; from xiaowu23@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:35:00PM -0600 References: <20020319120538.817C.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com> <20020319181215.A3462@icarus.slightlystrange.org> <20020319173312.ABC5.XIAOWU23@yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:35:00PM -0600, xw wrote: > Thanks!! > > Are there any programs/commands that can write the whole > disk to another like in Windows' CD-R/W without dumping > the whole contents of the disk twice? > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:12:15 +0000 > Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> wrote: > > Daniel> In that case, you will need to copy the image to your hard disk, change > Daniel> LS120 disk, then write the image file back. I would use dd for both stages. > Daniel> > Daniel> Of course, none of this is necessary if you have another LS120 drive! ;-) > Daniel> > Daniel> HTH > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > end of the original message # Insert the source disk into LS-120 drive $ dd if=/dev/rafd0 of=/tmp/disk.img # Insert the destination disk into LS-120 drive $ dd if=/tmp/disk.img of=/dev/rafd0 $ rm /tmp/disk.img Change the value of bs to get maximum data rate. Try bs=36b, as suggested by Greg Lehey in the reply to my own post on this list titled "LS120 drive has a strange behaviour with 1.44MB floppy". Francesco Casadei -- You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8mLCtfsM3XxZOsXsRAnrjAJoCOkuZB59ajkUnM28Z09g4wj5zKgCcDOJU E57Su54Z9QyMW5PN/cmzSQ8= =wDcT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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