On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:38AM +0100 I heard the voice of Christoph Kukulies, and lo! it spake thus: > > dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror
Give it a bigger blocksize (say, bs=1m or so) and it'll go a **LOT** faster. > My motherboard is an ASUS P4S8X with an on board promise controller > (currently not in use). System disk is on IDE1 and the two 80GB > disks are master/slave on IDE2 bus. You'll get much better results by having each drive be master on its own bus. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"