Re: [Eug-lug]] dma errors on dd

[Ralph Zeller]

swapoff -a

On 12/31/02 09am, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> I just tried copying my partitions one at a time with DMA support turned 
> on and there were no DMA errors reported. You may recall that when I copied 
> the entire drive at once (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k) with DMA turned
> on I got DMA and CRC errors in both Debian and Red Hat. So I wonder if this
> may have been caused by copying my active swap partition? Is there any way to
> turn off use of the swap portion during my dd backup process? -Dex
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