I swung by the shop this evening for a few minutes. Some quick points:
- tested the cloned drives to see if they would boot. None did. The
image that was on the drive was corrupt which resulted in a mangled
menu.lst file. I replaced the image on the ShopServer with a copy of
the original image. I recommend that these drives be re-cloned.
- created two cloned drives on the ShopServer (4+ GB and 10+ GB) using
the new copy of the clone image. Both booted into X and are labeled as
such, but I had to modify the xserver settings. See below for the
cloning process I used.
- created third cloned drive, but it is still connected to ShopServer.
It is unmounted and can be safely disconnected. Should be boot tested.
- read/write tested a few (6?) drives. They are in the red bins and are
labeled with "RW1" == read tested, write tested, single pass. See below
for read/write test process.
Cloning process:
1) login to the ShopServer that's running Ubuntu
2) connect a blank drive to the FireWire adapter
3) connect the FW cable to the FW adapter
4) connect power to the FW adapter
5) click on the Clone2Firewire icon on the Desktop (if prompted, enter
student's password)
6) when the script finishes, review the messages and press Enter
7) disconnect power from the FW adapter
8) disconnect the FW cable from the FW adapter
9) disconnect the cloned drive from the FireWire adapter
10) repeat for next drive
Read/write test process (bash commands):
dev=sda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${dev} bs=16k
dd if=/dev/${dev} bs=16k |
od -An -bw1000 |
tr -d '\n*' |
tr ' ' '\n' |
uniq |
head -20
Regards,
- Robert
