Hi,
currently I set up a freshly new gentoo system "from scratch"
on another harddisk.
For that purpose I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from
hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors).
One harddisk is currently holding the gento system, the other
one is intended as a bare plain copy of the other one (a backup
while setting up the system).
With an old KNOPPIX dvd I tried to copy the first hd onto
the other one with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192
which gave me a LOT of I/O errors after a short time.
Still hopeing, that my hardware (motherboard/chipset/bios) and
the hd are ok I am trying to figure out, what the reason was
for that...
My motherboard is an Asus AV8.
From what kernel version the new advanced format
of the hd is fully supported ?
Are there other reasons -- beside defective hardware -- for
the failing dd and how can I fix them ?
Thank you very much in advance for any help!
best regards
mcc
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