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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : <wlsimes@tell.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:21:57 +0930 (CST)

Re: dd time frame

I presume you have 32bit transfers and DMA enabled on both interfaces?
I hope you were using the bs option to dd to transfer with, say, 64kb blocks
instead of a byte at a time?

TC

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 wlsimes@tell.net.au wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have an old Pentium 166mhz with 64mb ram in which I am performing a
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc  between 2 x 30gb IDE hard drives. This is
> being done while in multiuser mode, I suspect that there would also
> be a small amount of network activity, e-mails coming and going would
> be about the limit though.
>
> It's been slugging away now for at least three hours, this seems a
> bit long, but on the other hand being ide and only a P166 it could be
> on track, I am not sure. There is nothing in any log files to
> indicate and problems.
>
> Does anyone think there is a problem and that I should kill it and
> redo this is single user mode ?
>
> I have looked at the man pages for verbose output, but there doesn't
> seem to be an option for it. Am I overlooking it or is there another
> way ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Wayne
>
>
>

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