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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:35:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
To:        Robert Gray <bob@cs.colorado.edu>, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: cloning laptop drives 
Message-ID:  <20010928163546.43871.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200109281418.IAA30085@calypso.boulderlabs.com>

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Ok then
Thanx for ALL the great advice here,

From what I'm getting from all your instructions
here's what I'll be doing for these laptops.

Mounting drives in another machine 
source=/dev/ad1
target=/dev/ad2
target=/dev/ad3
(I'll be mounting 2 targets at a time until all 20 or
so drives are finished)

Install the buffer port, then as root do;
buffer -s 32k -S 1m </dev/ad1 >/dev/ad2

(for target ad2 and would I chg the 32k to 1024k for a
1meg buffer?)
then;

dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/ad2 bs=1024k

I put ad1 on primary ide channel and ad2 &3 on sec ide
channel.

I hit 'ctrl-t' to get info on dd progress

and I can do in separate term 
systat -vmstat 1

and I look at the bottom section for me to see the 
transfer speeds.

Again I'm just confirming your instructions to see if
I got it right ..

Thanx again.



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