On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size > (512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input' > disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which > is only about 1.5 Mb/sec. The 'output' drive was on an IDE connector > shared with the CD device, so that may have been a cause of the poor > performance. > Probably that was the cause, I've done a few: dd if=/dev/random of=<disc> bs=1m recently, and they all went an order of magnitude faster than that, even on PATA drives. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
