Re: How to copy floppy disks.

[rpjday]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Juan Martinez wrote:

> I've read every message in this thread and have one question.
> 
> Does it matter what block size is used with the dd command?  I
> know you should use the same size when writing the floppy that
> you used when creating the image.

nope, not necessary.  generally, the larger the block size, the
more efficient, but i recall doing some benchmark testing a while
back and once you go above a few K for a blocksize, it doesn't
really matter.  just don't leave it at the default blocksize of
512 bytes -- really slows things down.
> 
> I'd probably use 1440k because it's the size of the floppy but
> I'd still like to know if it matters.

see above.

rday


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